As part of this year's Imaginate Festival there was a fringe event for families at the weekend. 6 short artist-led interventions happened in the Traverse bar and I was one of the artists to present a piece. My piece is called Anmut, which is German for "to have grace". The piece was composed for myself and a female singer, Katy Barry, to perform and it was designed by Kate Temple.
It was great to work with Katy and Kate as both will be involved in my show Ditto later in my residency. Activities like this give us opportunity to experiment and try out ideas of presentation for children. After a slightly shaky start where some children were slightly frightened by the stark intimacy of the piece we realised that by softening the performance style slightly the piece soon became a hit for children, families and some big kids- delegates, artists etc!
There are two collectors. One is a man, The other is a woman. They really like to collect different things. Right now they're into collecting post-it notes, toy animals and favourite words.
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