Photo provided by Geraldine Pilgrim Company
Price: Free
A joyous participatory performance that celebrates the act of sitting down and taking up space.
Created with local participants, this poetic and playful performance celebrates our right to freely accessed outdoor spaces to relax, work and dream. Framed around an array of brightly coloured chairs plus everyday and surreal objects, CHAIR! reminds us that everyone has the right to sit down.
Explore the access information, and learn how to get to the venue at the link above. This performance is presented as part of the Greenwich and Docklands International Festival (GDIF).
About the artist
Geraldine Pilgrim has been creating site-sympathetic shows long before such work became fashionable. She uses the architecture and history of a place – imagined and real – as both inspiration and narrative. The nature of her work is transformative – for audiences, participants and the communities local to the sites.
Her many highlights include 2015’s Well at Dagenham’s former Sanofi pharmaceutical factory, 2016’s Flight at Lake Windermere in Cumbria for 14-18 NOW and 2017’s The Missing Passenger for the National Railway Museum in York. Her participatory performance Handbag, originally commissioned for the Grand Hall at Battersea Arts Centre, has toured sites across the world for the past 13 years.
In partnership with
CHAIR! is supported by Culture Within Newham, Without Walls, Arts Council England and FESTIVAL.ORG.
GDIF is part of Without Walls, a network of organisations bringing innovative outdoor arts to towns and cities across England. Find out more on withoutwalls.uk.com
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