Producing Loopholes
by Joan Healy & Louise Ward 
8.30pm, Long Corridor

Joan Healy’s work mostly uses live art that incorporates installation, electronics and the tactical reappropriation of utilitarian objects from mass culture. Her work questions the viewer’s perception of reality by presenting them with seemingly physically impossible performances that reference the capitalist exploitation of human labour, and attempts to subvert traditional representations of gender and sexuality in popular culture. 

Louise Ward’s practice also involves bricolage and assemblages made from readymade consumer items. In her process-based work she poetically references a mental reservoir of accidental occurrences that she has experienced, and contrasts that with her observances of predictable patterns in both her daily life and in nature. Mixing these assemblages with video and vocal harmonies, she evokes the memory of her experiences and conducts a metaemotional inquiry into her own state of consciousness. She also invites the public to engage with her work by performing and installingtemporary sculptures in public space. 

For the Mart tour, Joan and Louise will be incorporating themselves into assemblages made from found objects, and using DIY instruments to construct a multi-layered audio-visual performance. 

Surface Attention
by Katherine Nolan 
Durational

Surface Attention is a series of bodily interventions in the social and public space of the gallery/theatre. 

Whether centre stage or roaming through the space, the female performer costumed and primed for erotic display in black lingerie, absurdly directs her performance to walls and corners. Finding gaps, nooks and protrusions in the architecture, she presses and squeezes herself across surfaces and into crevices, feeling and exploring the architecture with her skin. 

This new work opens out the narcissistic impulse in performance, literally and symbolically pushing it to the surface. The performance space as frame - whether purpose built gallery, theatre, re-used industrial or leisure space -becomes implicated in the female performer's perverse desires. The work seeks to twist the voyeuristic gaze by presenting a spectacle that shifts between erotic, absurd and abject. 

Cut And Paste Performance
by Alice Malseed
Reading Room

Using selected extracts from everything from Mills and Boon to Dwight York's Autobiography, Star Wars to Steppenwolf and The Trial to Alan Titchmarsh, rewrite the classics in your own way.

Participants will perform their works, on stage, to small audiences.