Roadmetal, Sweetbread - current (1998)

Photo: Jan Poloczek Photo: Jan Poloczek
Photo: Jan Poloczek Photo: Jan Poloczek

Occupying an alternative world bearing an uncanny resemblance to reality, a man and a woman compete with their own life-size video images for survival. Roadmetal, Sweetbread is recreated specifically for every venue it visits.

Using video images and live performance, Roadmetal, Sweetbread is concerned with the mismatches that occur between people: the differences between our private thoughts and behaviour, the success and failure of our conscious selves to deal with our physical predicaments. The piece is peopled by real bodies, by ghosts and by entities which seem to be both. By bringing live art and recorded video so closely together Roadmetal, Sweetbread opens up new possibilities for performance that combines the real, physical continuity of the body with the spatial and temporal discontinuity of the imagined.

Press Quotes
"Strikingly dynamic, confusing, funny and alarming ... It's unlike any other performance I've seen."
David Bachelor, Frieze

"A fantastically clever, deep and thought provoking piece of theatre about loneliness, intimacy and the powerful fantasies that possess us when we have too little of either ... a little classic of end of century performance art."

The Scotsman

Bibliography

Review: Roadmetal, Sweetbread - current
04 Sep 2000
Published in Le Temps

Review: Roadmetal, Sweetbread - current
19 May 1999
Published in Ouest-France

Review: Roadmetal, Sweetbread - current
05 Sep 2000
Published in Tribune de Geneve

Review: Roadmetal, Sweetbread - current
19 Nov 1999
Published in Abendzeitung

Review: Roadmetal, Sweetbread - current
19 Nov 1999
Published in SüddeutscheZeitung

Review: Roadmetal, Sweetbread - current
01 Jan 1998
Published in Frieze No 45

Review: Roadmetal, Sweetbread - current
01 Nov 1999
Published in Total Theatre

Review: Roadmetal, Sweetbread - current
01 Apr 1999
Published in The Scotsman

Review: Roadmetal, Sweetbread - current
01 Nov 1998
Published in Time Out London

Review: Roadmetal, Sweetbread - current
01 Nov 1998
Published in The Guardian

Review: Roadmetal, Sweetbread - current
01 Apr 1999
Published in Glasgow Herald

Review: Roadmetal, Sweetbread - current
05 Apr 2000
Published in Time Out London

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