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SlipperyFish
Saturday
19 August
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.
packet holidays
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Beach Shot
The Arrival
are Charlie Revell and Christy Kulz.
Christy hails from Boston, Mass. U.S.A. and was head cheerleader, class president and voted Girl Most Likely to Enter Congress before a flight mix-up brought her to the U.K.
Charlie was raised by Mormons in the Welsh countryside where she was kept tethered in the barn with the cows until the age of sixteen.
They met at Goldsmiths College in 1999 and parted after several artistic encounters with frozen fish and body paint. However the ties formed by a mutual fascination with body hair proved too strong and in 2005, having smuggled Christy back through immigration they were reunited; older, bitterer, but still determined to wear wigs and explore the sordid crevices of humanity in a misleadingly light-hearted manner.
SlipperyFish have created two full length shows, The Gift and Original Sin, in addition to their cabaret and installation work.
In Morrab Gardens on the way down to the seafront, Slippery Fish offered a very different experience. Drawing on a British tradition of end-of-the-pier seaside entertainments, they offered passers-by ‘packet holidays’. Willing punters were asked where they wanted their holiday and were taken by the two female performers, who were dressed as air-hostesses, up into the bandstand. To the sound of music appropriate to the country, they were then photographed wearing the national costumes and accoutrements typically associated with the destination chosen. The resulting Polaroid was generously given to them as a memento of the experience.
Appealing to people of all ages, particularly younger viewers, this was a tongue in cheek performance that was close to being street-theatre. It seemed to gently question and even ridicule the idea of the package holiday, which has devalued foreign travel by making it so cheap and easy.
