MARIOS STAMATIS
AFTER BLUE INTERVAL (w/ Lea Collet)
PERFORMANCE, 2017
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Look at the pool. We shall study the incessant and silent water flow that brings us together. Let’s imagine a Scenario; Scenarios of the Pool: After Blue Interval is an aquatic live performance, taking place at the swimming pool of the Pioneer Health Centre in Peckham. The format of the performance relies on an open script and the collaboration between the members of the cast and the artists. It uses archive stories from the Pioneer Health Centre, which took place between 1926 and 1950, initially generated by rising public concern over the health of the working class and an increasing interest in preventative social medicine, as a starting point but also reinvent fiction through different scenarios of the pool. The cast includes; an actor, a dancer, a historical reanactress, a life guard as well as handmade costumes and floating sculptures. The project took then the shape of an immersive video installation situated in a transformed gallery space that can be experienced as a ‘swimming pool’.
Peckham Experiment, London, 2017.
