WHAT IT’S NOT and then SOME

Video and Live performance commission by Video Jam for The Whitworth Art Gallery 2015 Relaunch + Commissioned as part of SLAP YORK PRIZE 2015

A video project using North West Film archive footage of Manchester City Centre + Manchester School Of Art students combined to explore fine art/high art and the role of women within it’s Northern history. The work uses home-made green screen processes and ‘low-art’ objects and was scored live by Manchester artist Dave Mclean and an ensemble of musicians with choreographic score of statuesque poses places within the audience performed by local performance artists including Emmy Lahouel, Hannah Buckley, Josie Hepplewhite and Juliet Davis.