Rachel Anderson - art and collaboration
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  • 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
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Image: Smother- Sarah Cole - Artangel 2010
Photo:Tas Kyprianou

Smother
Sarah Cole and Coram Young Parents
Artangel, 2010

Climbing the narrow stairs of a three-sided tower a girl searches for her lost cherries, is pushed aside by a braying buggy and tries not to throw the baby out with the bath water. Quite literally skating on thin ice, this is a world where stability is both sought and fought. Smother was a story of emotional resilience, adaptability, loneliness and joy, of constant battles and glorious victories.

Housed in the dolls-house frame of 101 Kings Cross Road, resting precariously above London’s ancient river Fleet, the inhabitants of Smother showed us a glimpse of a world where young parents navigate their own adulthood amidst the complexities of raising a child.

Conceptualised and developed with a group of parents from age fourteen to mid-twenties and their children, Smother encapsulated the vastly different experiences of these young mothers and fathers as they passed through weekly drop-in sessions at Coram.

Smother was developed over nine months through a series of workshops and discussions. Artist Sarah Cole worked with composer Jules Maxwell and the young parents to direct an experience that offered the audience a rare invitation into an honest and intimate personal space.

The Coram Young Parents drop-in is a weekly opportunity for young parents to share experiences and find support with a wide range of issues whilst their children can play in a stimulating environment.

Smother was previewed as part of Reveal a Create KX initiative during Spring 2010 which animated Kings Cross through a dynamic display of visual and digital art, live music and site specific performance.

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Sarah Cole


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