Ian Smith  |  Good Grief

"Distress is the new ecstasy - public funerals the new raves. We're really letting go."

A World Premiere Commissioned by New Moves International

Motorway railings become tiny shrines and funeral processions see mobs of strangers united in mourning. Carpets of flowers cover tarmac and hand-written notes festoon park benches. It's Beatlemania. Distress is the new ecstasy - public funerals the new raves. We're really letting go. Let go. All you need is love. 

Good Grief, a collaboration between Ian Smith (Performer), Bevis Evans-Teush (Digital Manipulator) and Graeme Wilcox (Painter), examines the blurred distinctions between public and private grief. Taking the form of an installation - periodically animated by Smith - it features recorded digital film, paintings, emotions and lamp-posts. 

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• nrla  |  wed 19 feb, 19h00-22h30, thu 20 feb, 15h00-22h30,
  frid 21 feb, 12h00-20h30 & sat 22 feb, 12h00-20h30