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- Artist
- If you're an artist, what kind of art do you make?
- Installation, Performance
- I am...
- a theatre professional who has worked in a large variety of art structures and art forms. I've worked extensively as a performer, director, writer/collaborator, storyteller, instructor & in theatre development. Returned to Scotland after a ten-year stint as the Artistic Director of Maenad Theatre in Calgary, Canada where I worked as a theatre professional in a large variety of art structures and art forms.
- About my artwork
- I have worked worked extensively as a performer, director, writer/collaborator, storyteller, instructor & in theatre development. A long-term exploration of theatre and performance art with Métis performance artist, Cheryl L’Hirondelle, led to tandem presentations, ‘Mother Tongue’ within both visual art and theatre settings. I work predominantly with new works for theatre. As a cross-over artist I have explored many ways of collaborating within theatre and poerformance to create installations and mixed media performance works. MasQuirx was a long-term project which brought together performers, visual artists, composers & anthropologists to create performance works and exhibitions which toured Canada and SE Asia. For seven years I was a curator/programmer for herland film and video Celebration. In 2004 I directed ‘see me’, a video short made with Aberdeen’s homeless community, which was screened in Aberdeen, Dundee, Glasgow and Athens. In 2004 created a Millennium Fund sponsored audio artwalk on the North coast of Scotland. A second audio artwalk, sponsored through the Lighthouse Innovation Fund began during the Highland year of Culture 2007. I have narrated talking books, performed in radio drama and film and video and am the playwright/co-writer of ‘Aphra’, ‘Mother Tongue’, ‘Speaking in (Mother) Tongues’ & ‘The Cocoa Diary’. Ensuring community involvement and participation is a central element of creating my art.
- Artists I like
- Bill Viola, Laurie Anderson, Mike Leigh, Sussan Deyhim, Meredith Monk, Louise Bourgoise, Frida Kahlo, Steve Reich, Arvo Part, Peter Greenaway
- Interests
- Art being incorporated into ever aspect of my life. Cycling. The sea.
- What exhibitions are good at the moment?
- Peacock Art Gallery, Aberdeen - Recoded
- The centre of the artworld is
- nowhere and everywhere
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The 2009 IJC is open to all artists worldwide, age 18 and older. All works must be original. Entries in the following medias will be accepted: Painting, Drawing, Mixed media, Printmaking, Watercolor, Ceramics, Sculpture, and Photography.
Entry Deadline February 15th 2009.
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cheers,
Frank Fu
Carmen
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all success.
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