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Marcia Farquhar: 12 Shooters at Whitechapel Gallery

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Time 19:00
Date 19/03/15
Price £8.5

The acclaimed artist introduces a special screening of this anthology film responding to her vivid performances and including contributions by artists.

12 Shooters incorporates 13 short-films by 13 different filmmakers, each a reconfiguration of a once-live work from the last 12 years of Marcia Farquhar’s practice. Collaborators include Dryden Goodwin, Andrew Kotting, Saskia Olde Wolbers and Uriel Orlow.

Marcia Farquhar is an artist working in performance, photography, painting and object-making. Her site-specific works have been staged and exhibited internationally in museums and galleries, as well as in lecture theatres, kitchen showrooms, hotels, pubs, parks and leisure centres.

Farquhar’s performances are conceptual in nature and often precariously balanced between the prescribed and the unpredictable – socially open, broadly embracing of circumstance, and resolutely focussed in the live and unrepeatable moment. They have also made frequent and subversive use of popular cultural forms such as TV cookery, pop-psychology, the Punch & Judy show, the fashion catwalk and the guided tour.

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