Tag Archives: Bristol Mayfest 2014

Hannah Sullivan: Echo Beach

May 27th, 2014 by

Hannah Sullivan has been collecting the way people dance. Looking and logging individual attitudes and details, storing them away to put into her show. In the way you dance is both a revealed intention and a great deal which you unintentionally reveal. We get to watch Hannah snap between portrayals or gradually find the next […]

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Alice Tatton-Brown: Ariel

May 27th, 2014 by

This is a delicate and evocative audio journey which takes us through Bristol Central Library on a search for Ariel, the subject of a series of photos found and fallen in love with by artist Tatton-Brown in an antiques shop. The language is imagistic and associative and the narrator has a charming warmth of tone, […]

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Nick Steur: Freeze

May 27th, 2014 by

A completely unique show based around a singular talent, Freeze! crackles into being around a man on his knees balancing rocks on top of each other while his voice, purposefully slow, floats out to us from a speaker, a distraction talking about distractions. The stones rest on large boxes made from mirrored glass, heightening the […]

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Split Britches/Peggy Shaw: Ruff

May 22nd, 2014 by

Bits of the brain go dark. The memories they contain disappear. Speech, thought, up and down: all scratch and twist and fail. What do you do? In this case the artist continues to do what they almost cannot do, nothing else is possible. In January 2011 Peggy Shaw suffered two strokes, and as one half […]

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