Microperformance and Site
This winter school will combine FrenchMottersheads working processes with participants observations, ideas and interest in subverting urban social rituals. Over the six days, we will look at site as a generative framework, immersing audiences, context-driven social interactions, performative events and strategies for documentation. These explorations will feed into making site-based works that engage local people in Tramways public spaces and the surrounding area.
We are keen to work with practitioners and students in any medium, from performers to non-performers such as visual artists and architects.
Biography
Rebecca French & Andrew Mottershead collaborate on the creation of live work that specifically explores ideas of human identity, physicality, interaction, social ritual and the everyday public and private realms in which they are played out. Often physically absent from the work, they invite the audience to be complicit as they engage in the creation of unique performance experiences. Through the use of objects, instructions, maps, photographs and actions, they gently subvert sites and the way contemporary art is produced.
During 2006/07, FrenchMottershead will take their participatory artwork Club Class, to Tate Modern, Tate Liverpool and the ICA. They will also present their site-based photographic work Shops at the Liverpool Biennial and the Tract Festival in Penzance.
FrenchMottershead were Artists in Residence at National Review of Live Art 2006 and have recently completed commissions for Peckham Pier, Inbetween Time Festival, Arts Council England, Colchester Arts Centre, Arnolfini and Finland's ANTI Festival.
http://www.frenchmottershead.com/