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Mr & Mrs Clark present SMASH IT UP at Aberystwyth Arts Centre
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In your hometown a symbol of equality, justice and freedom has been destroyed; a piece of art that stood for everything you know to be right. Its destruction makes way for a privately guarded shopping centre. What do you do? If you are Mr and Mrs Clark you start a campaign.
Smash It Up is a direct response to the destruction of the Chartist Mural in Newport. But this is not merely about the loss of this popular piece of public art. What has replaced the public land where the mural stood is a private shopping centre with rules and regulations suppressing free expression. In exploring the loss of art and public space Mr and Mrs Clark with the artists Bosch have created an exhibition, a performance lecture, a dance theatre show with documentary and short film.
Smash It Up has become a campaign, a series of public performances and an
Amnesty International nominated show.
Smash It Up is about our right to be creative and is a destructive plea for some cultural conservationism… perhaps an ode to the misunderstood, underrated artist. It is a challenging and uncomfortable demand for equality, for hope and for greater creative freedom and beyond all for an understanding and nurturing of the creative imagination.
In collaboration with the Newport art activists Bosch and with the guidance of the artist Andre Stitt, Mr and Mrs Clark developed a timeline of performances in public spaces that now make up a theatre show.
Short-listed for the Amnesty Freedom of Expression Award 2015 at the Edinburgh Fringe Smash It Up is a destructive plea for some cultural conservationism. It is a challenging demand for equality, for hope and for greater creative freedom and beyond all for an understanding and nurturing of the creative imagination.
‘Mr and Mrs Clark unleash a wild and often witty plea for artistic and civic preservation’ The Herald
Part of the Site 2 – Safle 2 festival
To book contact Aberystwyth Arts Centre ticket office 01970 62 32 32 or go online www.aberystwythartscentre.co.uk
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