Image: a tender subject - Mark Storor - Artangel 2012
Photo: Steven King
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.
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.
