*Microperformance: (noun) a number of small, intimate actions, tasks or conversations performed anonymously on and by an active audience. FrenchMottershead 1999
Social life everywhere, regardless of its location, is underwritten by custom and practice.
FrenchMottersheads new work for the National Review of Live Art (NRLA) aims to use the liveness of the NRLA to diversify the conduct of all that attend and so create an installation in a living, social network.
Combining a series of on site micro-Classes, a durational microperformance event and a digital projection, this four-day project puts the audience in the position of creator, performer and documenter.
Operating within the social rituals and commonly shared areas of the NRLA and the Arches- the queuing, the waiting, the chatting, the watching, the trips to the toilet, the socialising, the restaurant, the bar, the corridors the project fills the gaps with questions about day-to-day perceptions of the world that envelops us and the roles that we play.
Working since 1999, FrenchMottershead have developed microperformance*, an approach that explores the details of urban and social life.
Led by Rebecca French and Andrew Mottershead, the collaborative project has created over 200 microperformances, specifically exploring human identity, physicality, interaction, social ritual and the everyday public and private realms in which they are played out.
Responding to unconventional sites across the UK and beyond, FrenchMottershead encourage local participation through live art and mixed media, informing and altering an audiences day-to-day perceptions.