Third Angel
Words & Pictures
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performance: duration 62 mins; video documentation above – 62 mins
From the original Festival website:
A collection of short stories: Chapters from the Unfinished Books of our Life Stories. Texts to explain our obsessions and our passions. Writings that try to understand why it is we are fascinated by those empty benches we see by the side of the road. That try to remember what it felt like to stand on the highest diving board as a kid. That try to explain why we hated that job. Notes that try to understand games and songs. Words to accompany pictures. Readings to be heard in the dark.
There comes a time in your life by which point you should have written a book. If you were going to. Well, we’re at that time but we just haven’t got round to it; we’ve been busy. Really busy. There’s a book’s worth of stuff there but, well, there’s been too much else to do. But we do like the idea of a book tour. Touring, we’ve done a lot of that. So we’re cutting straight to that bit: The Book Tour. Words & Pictures is a book reading for a book that hasn’t been written yet, let alone published.
Third Angel is a company making projects in theatre, live art, video, photography, visual art and on the internet. Established in 1995 and working from a base in Sheffield, the company is led by artistic directors Alexander Kelly and Rachael Walton. Starting with the interests and obsessions of the collaborating artists, Third Angel makes work that attempts to address the emotional, physiological and rational realities of living in Britain [and to varying degrees Europe and the world] in the 20th and 21st centuries. Inquisitive, exploratory, emotional and entertaining, the work tours to theatres, galleries, art centres, festivals throughout the UK, mainland Europe and beyond.
Third Angel is regularly funded by Arts Council England, Yorkshire and supported by Site Gallery, Sheffield. Words & Pictures is commissioned by the Off The Shelf Festival of Writing and Reading and Leeds Met Gallery and Studio Theatre.
Words & Pictures
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From the original Festival website:
A collection of short stories: Chapters from the Unfinished Books of our Life Stories. Texts to explain our obsessions and our passions. Writings that try to understand why it is we are fascinated by those empty benches we see by the side of the road. That try to remember what it felt like to stand on the highest diving board as a kid. That try to explain why we hated that job. Notes that try to understand games and songs. Words to accompany pictures. Readings to be heard in the dark.
There comes a time in your life by which point you should have written a book. If you were going to. Well, we’re at that time but we just haven’t got round to it; we’ve been busy. Really busy. There’s a book’s worth of stuff there but, well, there’s been too much else to do. But we do like the idea of a book tour. Touring, we’ve done a lot of that. So we’re cutting straight to that bit: The Book Tour. Words & Pictures is a book reading for a book that hasn’t been written yet, let alone published.
Third Angel is a company making projects in theatre, live art, video, photography, visual art and on the internet. Established in 1995 and working from a base in Sheffield, the company is led by artistic directors Alexander Kelly and Rachael Walton. Starting with the interests and obsessions of the collaborating artists, Third Angel makes work that attempts to address the emotional, physiological and rational realities of living in Britain [and to varying degrees Europe and the world] in the 20th and 21st centuries. Inquisitive, exploratory, emotional and entertaining, the work tours to theatres, galleries, art centres, festivals throughout the UK, mainland Europe and beyond.
Third Angel is regularly funded by Arts Council England, Yorkshire and supported by Site Gallery, Sheffield. Words & Pictures is commissioned by the Off The Shelf Festival of Writing and Reading and Leeds Met Gallery and Studio Theatre.
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