Storehouse Bathfringe

SUnday 24rd May
Day 2 & 3

.visual arts

22 May - 7 June

Storehouse

an installation at the Podium by:
Brenda White & Colin Higginson.

"The objects were collected from people ... all
these objects (In the jars) are what people are
giving us, all are put inside these envelopes...

Do you like the site you are using in the Podium shopping area, are you happy
with it?

" I'm happy with the fact it's just an ordinary shop front, especially in this
sort of artificial environment.
How people are just coming in from
the outside...and just viewing it, some
people; I think, just think it's a new
shop...and then they realize it's something a bit different. There are also moments when the
performer isn't there."

" A lot of what we are playing with
is the idea of normal objects that get
discarded bits of things you throw
away, are discarded, become somehow
precious once they are exhibited, or
they take on another form. It;'s also that
thing that we have had is that people are
actually coming back because they have
contributed something... We have
actually had a family that have come
back three times and each time they
came back they brought something else
in, they were really getting into the idea
of having their own objects inside...
being exhibited."

So where do the objects actually come from?

"The objects were collected from people ... all
these objects (In the jars) are what people are
giving us, all are put inside these envelopes. I lias
with them and see if they will part with something,
yesterday we had a pair of someones trainers,
because they had just bought a new pair of
trainers.. they gave us their trainers.

I think what you can see now is really important
that the performer is introducing humour as well,
when the audience actually realizes that she's
actually liasing, that she is actually aware of others
and what is actually going on outside."

Also appearing at: The Schelling, Holland, 12 - 20 June 1998

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