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Image: Photographer: Stacey Potter
MAYHEW AND COLLABORATORS
SIZE OF COMPANY
2–15 on the road
SCALE OF VENUE
Small-, middle- and large-scale
PERMANENT STAFF
Artist
Michael Mayhew
ARTISTIC POLICY
Michael Mayhew has worked across art forms and in diverse locations across the world. Mayhew makes work through a process of in-depth immersion, of gathering and collecting, of responding to the lives around him. Each work is influenced by its location and surrounding community.
REVIEW EXTRACTS
John E McGrath, Artistic Director, Contact, Manchester.
Lois Keidan Director, Live Art Development Agency
Terry O'Connor, Forced Entertainment
CURRENT PRODUCTIONS
A performance exploring what it is to be human that closes with a live blood-letting. Each performance responds to the location of performance. (120 mins, 3 on the road.)
A large-scale participatory event: six women and six lap artists listen to public stories of vanished people. These stories are then used to create a performance installation of sound. (2 days listening to stories, 120 min performance, 15 on the road.)
Mayhew makes his body a living archive of memories of people who have vanished from our lives. Words are written on the body, washed away, the water cast into ice sculptures. A selection of words are tattooed onto his body. (Durational, 3 on the road.)
Mayhew hangs suspended from the ceiling as a bag of his own blood drips slowly on to his body. A durational performance investigating neutrality and witnessing. (3 hours 33 mins, 3 on the road.)
Re-made for different contexts with local practitioners. Each performer freezes something that matters to them inside a block of ice. For six hours they melt the ice to release their frozen object. (6 hours, audiences are free to come and go, 5 on the road.)
FUTURE PRODUCTIONS
Mayhew leaves Manchester, England and travels over land to Australia, along a generated line of humanity, visiting geographical locations that are vanishing. He arrives into Brisbane, Australia and performs. Invite him – meet him. An Artsadmin bursary award www.artsadmin.co.uk/projects/bursary-artists.php.
Following a global trip Mayhew will exhibit humanity working with the people he met travelling over land from Manchester to Australia.
WRAP-AROUND
In-depth cultural engagement; workshops, lectures, residencies.
RECENT INTERNATIONAL WORK
2007 Australia (), Ireland ()
TOURING AVAILABILITY
Mayhew is travelling over land to Australia. He maybe in a country near you. Make contact with the company.
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