Conceived as a direct strategy to foster continuing relationships between artists in the UK and overseas, the 2007 residency will see Megan Palaima (US) visit the UK in May.

Any enquiries may be addressed to:

Lisa Urwin
Company Co-ordinator
lisa@hancockandkellylive.com



Megan Palaima is a multi-media performance and installation artist.  She creates site-considerate work that addresses the relationship of intimacy and pleasure between the audience, artist, and architecture. 

During the 2007 residency there will be a number of presentations, where members of the public are invited to come along and engage with Megan Palaima and hancock & kelly live.


Tuesday 8 May
3.30 - 5 pm
Screen 4, Broadway Media Centre
hancock & kelly live presents Megan Palaima (talk)
FREE
Please email: bic.contact@ntu.ac.uk to reserve a place

This presentation offers an introduction to Megan's practice and an opportunity to hear from a creative individual working in the US.  Megan has performed and exhibited across the US, Central America, and Europe and will be visiting the UK at the invitation of artists Richard Hancock and Traci Kelly.  She will be in Nottingham exploring sensory relationships between bodies, spectators, and places.

Thursday 17 May
1 - 5 pm
The Bonington Gallery
hancock & kelly live The Mirror Pool
(One-on-one Performance / Installation lasting 10 minutes)
FREE
Booking essential.
Please call 0115 848 8446 to reserve a place

To coincide with Megan Palaima's UK visit, hancock & kelly live will premier the fourth in it's series of solo performances, Traci Kelly's The Mirror Pool.  Since 2005, Hancock and Kelly have been engaged in a game of 'performance chess'; a series of solo performances, each made in response to the previous piece, alternately by Hancock and Kelly. 

The Mirror Pool is an intimate transference rippling in the hands of the audience.  As polished surfaces seep and reflect and the grotto overspills, the act of exchange becomes an unstable structure.  This durational performance will be followed by a sharing of work by Megan Palaima.

Thursday 17 May
6 - 7 pm
The Bonington Gallery
Megan Palaima
(Performance / Installation)
FREE
Post show discussion: 7.30 - 8 pm (refreshments provided)

At the end of her time in the UK, Megan Palaima will show some of the work and ideas that she has developed as part of her residency.  The performance presentation will be followed by an informal discussion between the artist and members of hancock & kelly live, focusing on issues raised in the presentation.

The 2007 hancock & kelly live International Artist's Residency has been produced in partnership with Future Factory at Nottingham Trent University.  It has also been supported by Nottingham Creative Network.

Venues

Broadway Media Centre
14 18 Broad Street
Nottingham
NG1 3AL

The Bonington Gallery
School of Art and Design
Nottingham Trent University
Bonington Building
Dryden Street
Nottingham
NG1 4GG