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Performance

20

May
2016

In Performance

By Nicola Gauld

Performance: Furious Folly

On 20, May 2016 | In Performance | By Nicola Gauld

Furious Folly takes place as night falls in Sutton Park, in a no-man’s land on the battle front between the two lines. Disorientated, the audience find themselves immersed within an open-air collage of sound, light, pyrotechnics and performance.

Mark Anderson, creator of multi-media and site specific performance, leads a team of artists who draw on the anti-war spirit of the early 20th century Dadaist movement.

Railing against the futility of the Great War and the madness of the battlefield, Furious Folly challenges the inhumanity and senselessness of conflicts past and present.

Furious Folly is part of 14-18 NOW, the UK’s arts programme for the First World War centenary.

Hans Arp, founder of the Dadaist movement

“While the thunder of the batteries rumbled in the distance…we searched for an elementary art that would, we thought, save mankind from the furious folly of these times”

Richard Wilson

“Anderson has spent his professional career creating audio visual alchemy that uses light, heat, vibrations, electricity, oscillating chemicals and paraphernalia to dazzle our eyes and startle our imaginations”

Price

FREE

Spaces need to be booked in advance, please visit this link: http://www.birminghamhippodrome.com/calendar/furious-folly/

Important Information

Grounds open from 9.30pm, show lasts approximately 40 minutes. This is an outdoor performance, so please come prepared for all weather conditions. Age guidance 12+.

 

Created at 101 Outdoor Arts Creation Space. In association with Birmingham Hippodrome, Oxford Playhouse, Oxford Festival of the Arts and Stockton International Riverside Festival.