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Roddy
Hunter
ethnographic fault line II
Roddy
Hunter
Roddy Hunter (b. 1970, Glasgow) is known internationally for contextual and conceptual performance
art works concerned with urban knowledge and ideology...more
Roddy Hunter (b. 1970, Glasgow) is known internationally for contextual and conceptual performance
art works concerned with urban knowledge and ideology...more
Misha Myers
Pain Town
Misha
Myers
Misha Myers is an internationally recognised live artist and lecturer at Dartington College of Arts.
Originally, from Mississippi, she first trained as an anthropologist and dancer. She has presented
work and engaged in research world-wide including in Japan, Denmark, Romania, Guatemala and
USA...more
Misha Myers is an internationally recognised live artist and lecturer at Dartington College of Arts.
Originally, from Mississippi, she first trained as an anthropologist and dancer. She has presented
work and engaged in research world-wide including in Japan, Denmark, Romania, Guatemala and
USA...more
Sarah Jane Pell
Hydrophilia
Sarah
Jane Pell
The work of Australian Live Artist/ Occupational Diver Sarah Jane Pell explores the psychological states and physical conditions experienced underwater as new work of live art. Pell has established an reputation through a series of signature Aquabatics performances that are provocative, innovative and seductive engagements with water. Her work has been exhibited and performed in Australia, Europe, Scandinavia, Asia and most recently the US...more
The work of Australian Live Artist/ Occupational Diver Sarah Jane Pell explores the psychological states and physical conditions experienced underwater as new work of live art. Pell has established an reputation through a series of signature Aquabatics performances that are provocative, innovative and seductive engagements with water. Her work has been exhibited and performed in Australia, Europe, Scandinavia, Asia and most recently the US...more
Eva Weaver
time' hands.
Eva
Weaver
Born in Germany, I have been living and working in the UK for over ten years. My performance work concerns issues of cross-cultural identity, belonging, historical trauma and stereotyping.
My performances, both time-based and durational have a strong visual emphasis and are sometimes created for a particular site...more
Born in Germany, I have been living and working in the UK for over ten years. My performance work concerns issues of cross-cultural identity, belonging, historical trauma and stereotyping.
My performances, both time-based and durational have a strong visual emphasis and are sometimes created for a particular site...more
Polly Hudson
stories from the flesh
Polly
Hudson
More Stories from the flesh
Artist/dancer/choreographer Polly Hudson will be coming back together
with Florence Peake following their critically acclaimed performances
in Birmingham, London and San Fransisco, of which the San Fransisco Daily
Starr said ...moments of pindrop perfection..'to show a new site specific
work at the Jubilee Lido, Penzance...more
Matt Hawthorn
shanty
Matt
Hawthorn
"Shanty" Shanty defines a sense of place, a point
where bodies of knowledge fuse in a moment of dwelling. Shanty is a history
incorporated into the body and expelled as song. Shanty is a dwelling
space that sits perpetually between the transient and the permanent...more
milgram
Quatermass
an audio offshoot of the art group a.a.s., create site-responsive sound performances; pre-recording noises from the area and mixing them with live sounds on the night. Their name is a reference to the psychologist who performed experiments into obedience to authority, and they often perform wearing white coats as a signifier that they have some kind of scientific reason for carrying out their activities. This is also extended into the more manual skills signified by brown coats.
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Richard Layzell
Radiant Curve
Richard Layzell’s work in performance, video and installation - and with industry and communities - has been recognised internationally. He is currently collaborating with Tania Koswycz on The Manifestation, a major new work for galleries. He is the author of The Artists Directory, Live Art in Schools and Enhanced Performance...more
Jordan Mckenzie
At Arms Length
Jordan
Mckenzie
A durational performance through the town and beachscape of Penzance. Jordan Mckenzie has exhibited nationally and internationallly developing his work within a variety of contexts. His work explores the relationship of drawing amd markmaking to the body and the spaces it inhabits.....more
A durational performance through the town and beachscape of Penzance. Jordan Mckenzie has exhibited nationally and internationallly developing his work within a variety of contexts. His work explores the relationship of drawing amd markmaking to the body and the spaces it inhabits.....more
FrenchMottershead
Five shops
FrenchMottershead
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...more
KiraO'Reilly Inthewrongplaceness
This piece emerges from a period of research during which I worked with newly dead
pigs being used for medical research. After the scientists had put the pig to into a non-
recoverable anaesthetic and had taken the lungs, I then took a biopsy of the pig’s skin
from which to cultivate skin cells in vitro, in preparation to work from a biopsy of my
own body’s skin...more
Amanda Lorens
Tango in Transit
Lorens current work incorporates video, sound, installation and live art. She has exhibited nationally and internationally making work for both gallery and site-specific locations. She was a founding member of PALP (Penwith Artist led Projects) co-curating and presenting site related art in unusual and temporary locations...more
Aileen Lambert
Breath Street
I have used breath and breathing as a material and an activity in a number of works in the last eighteen months. Breathing is a necessary activity, which acts as a simple metaphor for our engagement with our environment – the inhalation of the atmosphere into our bodies and it’s exhalation into the world around us: a constant rhythmical activity which begins at birth and ends with our death...more
Melissa Longnecker
Charter & Manifest
Scales, perceptions, drawing styles and the individual importance of place collides, shifts and mutates to create a large-scale hand drawn map of Penzance by the people of Penzance...more
Slippery Fish
Packet Holiday
Escape the ordinary! Evade the everyday! Come to the Morrab Garden bandstand and let SlipperyFish send you on a Packet Holiday. The extraordinarily accommodating SlipperyFish flight attendants will whisk you away to an alternate reality, leaving you with a charming commemorative Polaroid to cherish and remember your holiday...more
Alistair Mclennen
SAW WAS
Alistair Maclennan's durational work of 9 hours will take place at Penlee Park...more
Helena Goldwater
Hot Soak
Helena Goldwater has indulged in a room with a view at the Queen’s Hotel. She invites you to spend five minutes alone with her in the bathroom. Hot Soak is a ‘one-to-one’ performance which revels in fluids and intimacy. Without you - the audience - this work could not exist...more
Fran Cottell
Still Life
Continuing and developing a vein of work that seeks to give greater visibility to support services and behind the scenes activities. Visitors are invited to take part as individuals or in groups, in a taxi relay around Penzance and access an alternative view of the town...more
The Mercian Enactment Society is sending one of their most experienced members to Penzance for ‘Tract’. The purpose of the M.E.S. is the performance or enactment in public and private of histories of many sorts. The society is interested in the locality and its stories: ...more
Amanda Couch
Neo Sakkharic: A New Sugar Age
… a character, a diminutive figure…not of this time…she is a traveller; navigating boundaries between civilized and savage, woman and child, place and time …I wonder if she is me?...Who is ‘me’, anyway?
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David Brinkworth
The Fine Art Service Industry
The Fine Art Service Industry was formed by david Brinkworth to umbrella a number of service related works that we have developed over the last few years...more
Lucille Power
Super Bowls
Super Bowls! is a live work derived of flat green lawn bowlers’ passion for their sport. My desire to make this work arose from a fascination with how people communicate and behave, particularly in groups, and what the process of learning a new hobby, and becoming a new member of a club might reveal or present of itself.
Vicki Melody
Faraway Voices
Cornwall has had a disparate importance in the history of communications. Medieval coastal chapels, usually dedicated to St Nicholas, had the safety of seafarers as one of their concerns and showed a light in the window. In time lighthouses were built, and as trade grew, and losses through shipwrecks mounted, further lights filled in the gaps and were built with great difficulty on isolated rocks...more
Gino
Saccone’s Morph
performance examines ideas of memorial through
nature’s lifecycle. Artificiality and simulation are here deployed as the
artist will be disguised to blend into the surroundings of Penlee Park. more...