My Parallel Archive and Vanishing Point at Dark Carnival: Notes from Underground, Old Vic Tunnels, Station Approach Road, London, UK, from 6pm, 20th-21st August 2010

August 08, 2010

Wilberforce’s re-staging of a key element of the private and domestic archive in a contemporary public realm, together with the red velvet curtains (used in numerous family portraits taken by the artist’s father), creates a possibility for the re-enactment of new portraits, as well as a re-imagined space for the theatrical and the performative. Layering with My Parallel Archive (2010), and within a closed and derelict structure, Vanishing Point (2009) presents an isolated and miniature stage, stripped down to its main frame, a projected video and an external peep hole for viewing.

Notes from Underground is an open creative endeavour, that stimulates and engages in a plethora of arts genres. It is a festival celebrating the theatrical experience and the possibilities therein. The acts within ‘Notes from Underground’ share common ground in that their work constitutes a re-examining of the language of art. A strong strand of the programme is physical theatre, which extends to artists who are crossing boundaries and playing with the very form of theatre itself. Their projects are constructed in the liminal frameworks between aesthetics and utility, object and the operative, architecture and performance.

Three companies will create three, twenty minute performances which will punctuate the evening. All of which, will make tangible connections with the other artists inclusive of works in the realms of; visual arts and installation, various aspects of site specific performance, circus, dance, film, music and celebratory theatre.

Doors open from 7pm. Book online at: www.darkcarnival.ticketsource.co.uk