REVOLTINTASTE - NOW
ATTEMPTATION/OVERT OPERATIONS
Inland Festival: The Future Project, 2016
Photos: Artur Tixliski
Inland Art Festival is a contemporary art festival founded by Alice Mahoney, Cat Bagg and Rosie Allen and produced by Field Notes. It brings diverse communities together in the historic town of Redruth, Cornwall, providing a locally rooted platform for local and regional creative practitioners and opportunities for audiences to see internationally renowned art in unusual locations. Redruth once held the title of ‘richest square mile in the world’, now the monetary wealth has all but gone yet it’s still one of the richest towns we know. The Future Project explored some of the ways these foundations can be built upon to imagine alternative, possible and impossible, weird and wonderful futures. For Inland 2016, the second iteration of the festival, we worked with local residents, artists, academics and musicians, showcasing 120 artists in 21 venues to create a three-day alternative future around Redruth.
Photos: Artur Tixliski
REVOLT IN TASTE - NOW, OVERT OPERATIONS, 2016
Performers, REVOLTINTASTE script
ATTEMPTATION/OVERT OPERATIONS was one of the artists commissioned for Inland Festival 2016, for which they produced REVOLTINTASTE – NOW, a performance based on a script. The script was taken as a starting point for a performance which took place on the Saturday of the festival, when a group of self-selected festival goers came together to read and rework the text, publically enacting the processes of rehearsal, revision and compromise.
A brief summary of the REVOLTINTASTE script:
A group of dissolute re-enactors attempt to grapple with the complexities of re-staging a version of the Easter Rising; soon things turn fruity, and amidst calamity, hardship and compromise, a sense of community is born. Recreation becomes hazy and begins to blur into re-creation; REVOLTINTASTE moves toward a revolutionary reappraisal of aesthetic sensation, a new sense of belonging and a confusion of roles and history.
Performers, REVOLTINTASTE script
ATTEMPTATION/OVERT OPERATIONS was one of the artists commissioned for Inland Festival 2016, for which they produced REVOLTINTASTE – NOW, a performance based on a script. The script was taken as a starting point for a performance which took place on the Saturday of the festival, when a group of self-selected festival goers came together to read and rework the text, publically enacting the processes of rehearsal, revision and compromise.
A brief summary of the REVOLTINTASTE script:
A group of dissolute re-enactors attempt to grapple with the complexities of re-staging a version of the Easter Rising; soon things turn fruity, and amidst calamity, hardship and compromise, a sense of community is born. Recreation becomes hazy and begins to blur into re-creation; REVOLTINTASTE moves toward a revolutionary reappraisal of aesthetic sensation, a new sense of belonging and a confusion of roles and history.
FUNDERS AND PARTNERS
Inland Festival 2016 was supported by funds from Arts Council England, Heritage Lottery Fund, Big Lottery Fund, FEAST, Cornwall Council and Redruth Town Council, and delivered in partnership with Krowji, Cornwall College, Visual Arts South West, Field Notes, LUX, Falmouth University, CMR Project Space and Back Lane West.
Inland Festival 2016 was supported by funds from Arts Council England, Heritage Lottery Fund, Big Lottery Fund, FEAST, Cornwall Council and Redruth Town Council, and delivered in partnership with Krowji, Cornwall College, Visual Arts South West, Field Notes, LUX, Falmouth University, CMR Project Space and Back Lane West.
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