Rachel Anderson - art and collaboration
  • About
  • Current Projects
  • Previous projects
    • idle women on the water (tour)
    • Have your circumstances changed?
    • Museum of Non-Participation - the patriarchal clock
    • Yes, these eyes are the windows, Saskia Olde Wolbers
    • In-Kind, Sarah Cole
    • Party for Freedom, Oreet Ashery
    • a tender subject, Mark Storor
    • Smother, Sarah Cole
    • Creative Partnerships
    • C.R.A.S.H - A Postcapitalist A to Z, The Laboratory of Insurrectionary Imagination
    • Museum of Non Participation, Karen Mirza and Brad Butler
    • Invisible Food, Ceri Buck
    • did you kiss the foot that kicked you? Ruth Ewan
    • Play
    • Wildcraft, Anna Lucas
    • No Tail
  • Speaking, writing and teaching
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Image: a tender subject - Mark Storor - Artangel 2012
Photo: Steven King

a tender subject
Mark Storor
Artangel 2012

The thought of the act of crying. The terror of, and need to, attach a smile to someone.

These are the quiet and tender moments imagined by men whose lives are not seen to be their own.

A culmination of three years' work with gay prisoners and prison officers, Mark Storor’s a tender subject was a twilight world where questions about who we are as human beings, and why we react and judge the way we do, were posed in a promenade performance that explored the relationship between fragility and brutality, tenderness and violence.

Audiences visiting a tender subject were transported from a central London location to a secret space underneath Smithfield Meat Market where they were escorted by prison officers along a guided route, encountering performance and installations that told the stories and experiences of the project’s collaborators.

The men performing the roles of prisoners in the production were involved  through a collaboration with Only Connect creative arts company.

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