(British Premiere)

Part of "One Year On" Tracking the development of four very promising young artists from last year’s NRLA Platform.

Oreet Ashery had been practising her male alter-ego, Marcus Fisher, an orthodox Jewish man walking the streets, when an offer she couldn’t refuse came from a friend, Shahhen Merali, “Do you want to become a black man?”  If so, he will become a white woman.

 What is becoming? Isn’t it enough to fantasise about what it is like being someone else, do you actually have to ‘make it up’, ‘perform it’.  What kind of black man will Oreet want to be?  What processes of desire and identification will take place?  What kind of white woman will Shaheen fashion from his imagination?  How do you trap desire?  And, how does guilt inform research?  The piece is an experiment in racial bankruptcy and investment, collaborative voyeurism and heavy make-up.

 The piece will take the shape of a video projection and an exhibition of photographs by Manuel Vason. A discussion will follow each screening and repeated every two hours.