THE SHOW

THE SHOW
BY THE SHOW COLLECTIVE

‘THE WALK’, KINGS STREET, READING
Thursday 2nd December, 2010
...5pm-8pm

CURRENT READING UNIVERSITY FINE ART students and one recently-graduated artist will be collaborating in a performative exhibition that will occupy empty shop units in the Walk, Reading, for one evening. The Show will bring together performance, installation, video, sound and smell to playfully investigate the disintegration of once-successful entertainers and washed-up circus performers.

COME TO SEE these characters, and the relics of their past. Their depressive nostalgia is trapped in a time that is hard-to-grasp, such that their stories are disjointed yet inter-connected. The visitors will be given the chance to explore the live space and observe the characters residing there- The bearded showgirl; Tamer and Beast - Caged and Uncaged; a folk-singing Fortune Teller; an Animalistic Taxidermist; and OTTER, amongst others.

THE SHOW will become a static exhibition during the week following the 2nd of December.

THEY SHOULDN’T BE ON THESE PEOPLE’S TERRITORY!
BUT THEY’VE BEEN INVITED TO IT.

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