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Smother at 101 Kings Cross Rd - Artangel commission: 13 May to 5 June 2010 [click here for more info]
"I emerged with a sense that I'd been picked up by a whirlwind and set down somehwere unfamiliar", review by Sara O'Reilly for Time Out, Critics Choice for four weeks, [click here to read more] "A vivid, angry, wistful piece about motherhood", review by Kate Kellaway, Observer [click here to read more] |
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Smother was devised by Sarah Cole over a nine month period working with a group of young parents and their children who attend a weekly drop-in at Coram Young Parents Project. Commissioned by Artangel Interaction, developed with composer Jules Maxwell and in collaboration with Coram, Jonathan Woolf Architects and the Foundling Museum. Smother occupies the dolls-house frame of 101 Kings Cross Road, resting precariously above London's river Fleet. The inhabitants of Smother show us a glimpse of a world where young parents navigate their own adulthood amidst the complexities of raising a child. No two audiences will have the same experience of the house - you are offered a glimpse into someone elses life, a fragmented view, depending on how you position yourself within the building as the stories unfold. Climbing the narrow stairs of a three-sided tower, a girl searches for her lost cherries, is pushed aside by a braying buggy and tries not to throw the baby out with the bath water. Smother is a story of emotional resilience, adaptability, loneliness and joy, of constant battles and glorified victories. |
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Smother is also contibuting to a Study of New Model Arts Institutions and Public Engagement by the University of Central Lancashire, exploring the relationship between artistic practice and personal/social transformation.
Smother - performance document, photo by Karl Cresser |
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