Lucille Power

Super Bowls !

Saturday 23rd September

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.
Joining Penzance Bowls Club as a guest for the duration of several days, I will partake of a friendly game with the club on the beautiful green adjacent to the prom. We welcome you to watch us, joining us for the afternoon in this members only establishment, and invite you to join us for tea, cake and conversation in the pavilion.
This piece was originally created with the support of the Arts Council England, Southwark Council and Awards for All.
With thanks to Penzance Bowls Club for their generosity in taking part in this event.Biography/ Artists’ Statement
I am a live art practitioner working across performance, video, text, installation and sound. My interests lie primarily in making site-specific and socially engaged work, especially through placing myself in contexts in which I am an outsider, or may not initially appear belong, by way of age, background or experience.
Peoples’ passions are what interest me and drive me to make work: an exploration of the things that make people tick, their enthusiasms, their hobbies, the things that give them a lust for life, that provide a way of orienting themselves in the world.

Archive Lucille Power Super Bowls! Performed on Saturday 23rd September

Lucille spent the Saturday of the last Tract weekend playing bowls as the invited guest of Penlee Bowling Club. The performance on the seafront near the Newlyn Gallery was a variation on a similar but more protracted work in which Lucille joined a bowling club in London for a year. This relatively long commitment culminated in a film that documented the lives and relationships of the other more elderly members.

Both the work in London and that in Cornwall had the quality of an ethnographic observational research project, in which the subjects were all members of the same club.