My current work with Howe has been selected for presentation at The Second Mad Artists’ Tea Party to be held in Bedford this Saturday!
The event is billed as ‘An afternoon of meeting, eating and performing for artists based in the East of England working in live art’. This sounds quite enticing …
As part of the Activator programme within the Eastern Region Escalator Live Art strategy, a series of six tea parties are being held across the region between October 2010 and August 2012, each led by a guest artist and consisting of discussion, presentation and workshop activities (along with drinking tea and eating cake, hopefully!).
For this second tea party the special guest is Tania Harrison, curator of the arts stages at Latitude festival. It all sounds like a very good idea and I was delighted to hear about it through Caroline Wright who is devising and leading the Activator programme for the East region. As ever, my proposal was somewhat last-minute but I was very happy to hear at the weekend that it had been successful!
Each selected artist is given a maximum of 10 minutes to perform or to present their work, so it will take careful planning. Also, I’m mindful that there will be no equipment or setting-up assistance available so it’s essential to keep things simple. I’m planning to take my overhead projector and have a single image and a piece of text projected onto a blank bit of wall – that shouldn’t be too technically demanding, should it? (she said hopefully). I have quite a lot of ‘making’ to do in preparation over the next couple of days. I hope I’m not being over-ambitious.
But the first step has been taken, as Trevor and I went back to Tulip Hill to collect sticks to distribute as part of the participatory element of the work … more on that in another post. We just made it back to the car as the storm broke and the heavens opened. Yes, you definitely feel close to the elements when you’re up in those Norfolk hills ;-p
