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Salad Dressing: A Cover Of Crackers
Book Launch & Performance
This event has already taken place and ended on 30 Apr 2011
Live Art/Dance
Sat 30 Apr, 6pm
Free
We invite you to a sophisticated opening, complete with limo, elegantly dressed special guests and mysterious crudités. Join us and participate in the climactic final act as it unfolds somewhat differently than in the original Crackers. Including costume design by David Curtis-Ring and performance artist Samantha Sweeting.
www.davidcurtis-ring.blogspot.com
Live Art: The Apparatus
Part of a series of live events beginning a year-long investigation into Arnolfini's The Apparatus season by examining the processes of making work, making relationships and making memories. This season we ask how artists, audiences and institutions interpret, reuse, and retell. From Cover-ed's revealing process of re-imagining past artworks, through Deborah Pearson's reliving of personal memories, to Sylvia Rimat trying to remain unforgettable in the minds of her audience, we consider the makings of artists, artworks, and cultural organisations.
Cover-ed
Thu 3 Mar - Sat 30 Apr
Performance Re-enactment Society (PRS), Tom Sowden & Michalis Pichler, Arnolfini Archive
"By the way, what salad dressing do you prefer?"
Cover-ed is a series of curatorial and creative interventions into and around Ed Ruscha and Mason Williams' iconic 1969 photo bookwork Crackers, a copy of which is held in Arnolfini's Archive. The story follows a man who invites a sophisticated woman to a skid-row flophouse and coaxes her into lying down on a bed of crisp green salad. After asking what salad dressing she prefers, he proceeds to pour five gallons of her choice over her entire body.
Over two months this bookwork will become the script, score, instruction, and inspiration for a three-day performance of photography, a participatory performance event, an installation, and a new book work called Salad Dressing. Join us for a series of playful and critical transformations of the original book, in which gender roles and intentions shift, and in which you, the readers, can get involved.
Supported by Premier Inn, King Street, Bristol
www.premierinn.com/en/hotel/BRIPLI/bristol-city-centre-king-street
