Coco Pops for £1 and a Roast Dinner Sandwich for £5 – this reasonably priced art-café is the pop-up project of performance artists Jenny Hunt and Holly Darton. As well as being a working café, it is an art piece (because they, the artists, say it is) presented as part of the Escalator East to […]
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Nathalie Marie Verbeke and Charlotte De Bruyne: XXXO
August 17th, 2012 by Dorothy Max PriorTwo girls with laptops at a table, upstage. The content of each screen is projected side-by-side behind them onto the rear wall. The images we see are of two tear-stained faces – a whole slideshow of them. It goes from photos to real-time videoing, and we see the tears really falling. This moves into footage […]
Teatr Biuro Podróży: Planet Lem
August 17th, 2012 by Dorothy Max PriorWelcome to the future! This is the future as it used to be – spaceships, robots, and hovercraft-like vehicles. Planet Lem’s vision is of a world in which experiments in Artificial Intelligence have led to robots taking over all the important work of the world. Humans, relieved of all major responsibilities, with no productive work to […]
Jimmy Grimes / Magpie Puppet Co: The Boy With the Cuckoo Clock Heart
August 16th, 2012 by Sarah DaviesIt is an immense credit to Magpie Puppet Co’s storytelling prowess that they were able to evoke such vibrant and absorbing images of a freezing Edinburgh night within The Pleasance’s Attic, a sweltering sauna of a space on the day in question. Under Jimmy Grimes’ direction, the company’s debut production effectively explores the story of […]
Future Ruins: Exterminating Angel – an Improvisation
August 15th, 2012 by Sarah DaviesTwo elements initially piqued my interest in watching Exterminating Angel: the first, its premise – set as it is in a dinner party that never ends; the second, its style – improvised content framed by an established structure, aiming to provide each new audience with a fresh experience. The levels of risk-taking, confidence and ensemble work […]