Illustration by Laura Jones
LIVE ART IN WYMONDHAM
We aim to share, encourage and participate in celebrating culture by bringing work that is often in isolation of specific forums to a space where such activities might never be seen. Live Art in Wymondham is a one day festival showcasing performance art from emerging artists based in Norfolk and across the UK.
BRINGING LIVE ART TO WYMONDHAM
Team Member
Director and Founder
Vivian Chinasa Ezugha is a performance artist. Ezugha's work looks at the transition of black women and their identity within culture from colonised subjects to emancipated figures.
Team Member
Marketing and Videographer
Rosie Cooper is primarily a visual artist with a passion for creative storytelling and compelling imagery. Immersed within her art platform, she pursues a range of projects to explore, challenge and bring the best out of her creativity in Photography & Filmmaking
Special thanks to Wymondham Abbey for supporting this year’s festival
LIVE ART IN WYMONDHAM 2017 – WYMONDHAM ABBEY
Leonela Helm Image by Rosie Cooper
Kimberley Warder
Image by Rosie Cooper
Laure Van Minden Image by Rosie Cooper
Vidmante Cerniauskaite Image by Rosie Cooper
Rebecca Loh and Steve Appleton Image by Rosie Cooper
LIVE ART IN WYMONDHAM
SATURDAY 27TH AUGUST 2016
Charlotte Barlow
- Francesca Cant
- Nicky Deely
- Weeks&Whitford
- Max and Noah. (Sheaf + Baley)
We spun three miles of thread out of wool in Wymondham town square. We then walked with that thread two and a half miles from the centre of the town to Kett's Oak, tying it as we went. Finally we tied the thread to the oak. We carried out this action for Live Art in Wymondham on 27.08.16.
This was done to commemorate the 16,000 people who marched to Mousehold in Norwich to claim their rights to the common land.
Weeks & Whitford make complex psychologically, emotionally and physically intense participatory durational performances involving evolving installations, specific soundscapes, choreographies of inter related actions and improvisations in response to context, site and audience. Liveness is central to their work. The use of sound scores, materials, props and actions enables them to construct personal and shared processes of transition or transformation. They address specific issues and challenges and communicate their experience of it to others. These issues, concerns and experiences become aestheticised as part of a highly personal, revelatory ongoing narrative. Their work has addressed alcoholism, cross-dressing, childlessness, caring, ageing, disability, the grind of labour, love, sex, gender, jealousy, infidelity, sin and repentance, despair, hope, faith, ritual, healing and magic. The work allows for Weeks & Whitford as two distinct people, two performers with different but overlapping languages and processes and makes difference, the negotiation of it, and the struggle to operate in relation visible.
They are co – founders and co - directors of Cornwall Autonomous Zone, an independent artist led project space/network. CAZ was founded in 2010 and is focused on supporting regional/national/international artists/curators working in performance, installation, video, art writing and research. www.cazart.org.uk
Francesca Cant is a Norfolk-based artist who works predominately in drawing and sculpture, and whose practice is concerned with similarities and differences between art and design. Cant recently graduated from Norwich University of the Arts with a BA Honors degree in fine art, before which she studied towards her foundation diploma at Falmouth University. Cant has shown work at the Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, firstsite, Stew Gallery and was involved in No Working Title at Tate Modern. Cant is the current artist-in-residence at the Norwich School.
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