- Venue
- The Revelator
- Date
- Wednesday, June 12, 2024
12:00 AM - Address
- Barclay Curle Complex 739 South St, Glasgow G14 0BX
- Location
- Scotland
- Organiser
- The Revelator - Festival of Rejects Glasgow Biennale 2024
UK premiere of visual theater performance ‘Souvenir of England’ at The Revelator as part of the new biennale Festival of Rejects (Feed The Hand That Bites You).
Held from Friday 7 to Sunday 23 June 2024 at The Revelator @the_revelator_clydebuilt in Glasgow, the Festival of Rejects (Feed The Hand That Bites You), Revelator’s very own Salon des Refusés, will present the work of artists and collectives whose applications were rejected by @gifestival 2024 (Glasgow International Festival, running concurrently).
‘Souvenir of England’ radically reframes British filmmaker Joanna Hogg’s tender coming-of-age story ‘The Souvenir, Part 1’ as a blunt meditation on England’s legacy of wealth and power. A tumultuous and densely layered journey through British but also global history, culture, and politics.
The production features my recent and ongoing photography series of ultra-wealthy Knightsbridge set against a selection of songs including Thatcher-era masterpieces ‘Shipbuilding’ and ‘Ghost Town’ re-imagined by my musical director @mrraphaelmann making extensive use of sounds of metal hitting metal to evoke the docks, shipyards, and steelworks – the labour on which the ‘mighty empire’ was built.
Free (donations for venue, merch sales for artist remuneration). Limited seating, get there early.
Production, direction, photography, video, and performance: Marianne Dissard @marianne.dissard @mariannedissard
Musical director: Raphael Mann @mrraphaelmann
Set design: @bastienforestier and @lavalota Remo Lotano
Dramaturgical assistance: @amigarmon
‘Souvenir of England’ was originally commissioned in 2022 by Paul @wallfisch , musical director of the national Volkstheater in Vienna, Austria. It has since been performed in Berlin, Düsseldorf, and Stuttgart.
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