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MICHAEL MAYHEW / Image: The Rituals of Being Not Being / Photographer: Roshana Rubin-Mayhew

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Photographer: Roshana Rubin-Mayhew

MICHAEL MAYHEW

Performance lecture|Site-specific outdoor theatre|Film

SIZE OF COMPANY
2–7 on the road

SCALE OF VENUE
Small to large

PERMANENT STAFF
Artist
Michael Mayhew

ARTISTIC POLICY
Michael Mayhew has worked across artforms and in diverse locations over 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

Lois Keidan, Director, Live Art Development Agency

John E McGrath, Artistic Director, Contact, Manchester.

Terry O'Connor, Forced Entertainment

CURRENT PRODUCTIONS

A large-scale collaborative participatory event: six women and six electronic composers, 3 women and 3 electronic composers from location ~ 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, 7 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.)

FUTURE PRODUCTIONS

Large scale projection of a road movie crossing Australia. The screening is accompanied by a spoken word text. 90 minutes ~ 1 on the road.

Mayhew arrives and lives with you, makes work in response to the time, the living, the people, the environment & location. 2 on the road ~ production length to be discussed.

WRAP-AROUND
In-depth cultural engagement; examination of process + practice -workshops, lectures, residencies, collaborations.

RECENT INTERNATIONAL WORK
2007 Australia:
2007 Ireland:
2008 Australia:
2008 Australia:

TOURING AVAILABILITY
Through out the year.

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