Arts
Soy sauce versus tomato ketchup
Controversial live art performers Mad for Real will celebrate Chinese New
Year with a soy sauce and tomato ketchup fight at the Colchester Campus.
Mad
for Real’s Cai Yun and JJ Xi are infamous for their previous outrageous
work, such as jumping on artist Tracey Emin’s unmade bed. Armed with soy
sauce and tomato ketchup, they will use strong physical and vocal gestures
that evoke Tak Chi and Qi Gong, creating splurges of colour within a
Perspex cube, slowly obliterating the space around them and their own
bodies.
Jess Kenny, Arts and Gallery Director, explains: ‘The University is a
great place for Mad for Real to perform and we hope their hilarious
performance gets people thinking. Condiments have never been used to such
riotous effect!’
Mad for Real during a previous soy sauce
and tomato ketchup fight
Mad
for Real’s work is about globalisation and marginalisation. Although the
popular products of consumerism are instantly recognisable, there will be
a gradual erosion of clarity through the process of splashing the coloured
liquids, causing chaos, confusion and eventual obscurity.
The
fight will take place on Square 5 at 1pm on Monday 26 January. Brought to
the eastern region in partnership with Colchester Arts Centre, Mad for
Real will also have a soy sauce and tomato ketchup fight in Castle Park at
2pm on Sunday 25 January.
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Propaganda
posters made public
Propaganda posters
from Mao Tse-Tung’s Cultural Revolution will be displayed in the Lakeside
Theatre from Thursday 15 January to Thursday 19 February.
Produced
during China’s Cultural Revolution (1966–1976), these posters were part of
a Communist Party campaign to present the party line to the masses. They
provide a powerful insight into China’s social, political and cultural
recent past during a particularly turbulent period.
The posters were
selected from a collection at the University of Westminster. This Lakeside
Theatre exhibition is open before and during all performances and by
appointment.
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