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20-24 August 2002 Swansea Museum, Victoria Road, Maritime Quarter Daily presentations at 4pm. Final performance Saturday 7pm Free Entrance. All Welcome. For one week in August, five artists get together to look at some Unfinished Business. A musician, video artist, dancer, actor and painter are locked together in a room for five days. At the end of each day, the doors are opened and the public is invited in to witness, share, dream and comment. The venue for the event is the Lecture Theatre in Swansea Museum. The Museum acts as a symbolic gateway to the city, both geographically and culturally. It is an extraordinary example of early Victorian architecture, and houses a diverse and sometimes surreal exhibition of artefacts and curios. Volcano brings together five extraordinary professional artists from Wales, Ireland and England, all accomplished and established in their own fields of work. This is a unique project in that nothing is planned or censored. The artists will work sometimes alone, sometimes collaboratively. Each day will be a totally new exploration of a theme or idea, involving improvisation, trial and error, creative accidents and shocking revelations. Using paint, live music, projected images, words and movement we aim to explore, create and take risks. Doors open each day at 4pm. Each presentation will last approximately one hour. All showings are open to the public and entrance is free. Each of the presentations will be totally different and we hope that visitors will return for more than one day. The public is invited to visit each day to share the changing creative journey and process and to contrast one presentation with another. The theme for each showing is Unfinished Business and will explore themes of birth, death and everything in between. There will also be opportunities for comment, feedback and questions from the public as part of an informal open forum, which will take place after each of the presentations. In addition to the daily presentations, there will be a final closing performance of Unfinished Business on Saturday at 7pm. The performance will take place throughout the museum, moving through the rooms and exhibits. The project is supported by an "Arts For All" lottery grant from the Arts Council of Wales, and is part of the City & County of Swansea Environmental Art Festival which takes place at various sites around the City and surrounding areas. The aim of the festival is to highlight awareness into how art can feed into, reflect, and highlight a sense of the place in which we live, its culture and community. THE ARTISTS Paul Emmanuel Goldsmiths College trained Welsh visual and conceptual artist who has recently returned from a three month British Council residency in Taiwan. Patrick Fitzgerald Sligo based composer and songwriter, formerly lead singer with Kitchens of Distinction and has recently released album Darkness and the Day under the name Stephen Hero. Maria Hayes Welsh painter living in Blaenau Ffestiniog with recent exhibitions in Caernarfon and Ruthin. Gillian Lyon Dancer, choreographer, theatre director and dramatherapist. Fern Smith Performer, director. Founder and Artistic Director of Volcano Theatre Company |
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| volcano theatre e-mail: volcano.tc@virgin.net |
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