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Performance art, frozen in time

For over a year, live performance art with an audience present has been largely impossible. But still images continue to allow artists in this sphere to inspire audiences at home.

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Disabled musicians and the fight to perform

Music might be the universal language, but unfortunately it doesn’t come with universal access. London-based artist Miss Jacqui discusses the barriers to her career with Jamie Hale.

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Talent, tech and visual art

Jamie Hale finds a combination of talent and technology are crucial when it comes to creating great visual art, but how do you keep working when your circumstances are in constant flux?

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Is fake news killing fictive art?

Parafictional artists create projects where the imaginary interacts with real life. But the growth of so-called ‘fake news’ is providing a new challenge.

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  • Two Commedia dell'arte street entertainers performing together. Etching by J. Callot.
  • Two Commedia dell'arte street musicians performing together. Etching by J. Callot.
  • The various ways of using horses, stags and elephants for the art of performing acrobatic feats shown in shown in seven sketches. Chalk lithograph by de Lemercier after V. J. Adam.
  • The various ways of using horses, stags and elephants for the art of performing acrobatic feats shown in shown in seven sketches. Chalk lithograph by de Lemercier after V. J. Adam.
  • Two Commedia dell'arte street entertainers using a clyster as part of their performance. Etching by J. Callot.
  • Two Commedia dell'arte street entertainers using a clyster as part of their performance. Etching after J. Callot.
  • Two Commedia dell'arte street entertainers using a clyster as part of their performance. Etching by J. Callot.
  • The actor Guillot-Gorju in character as Scaramouche, in a theatrical caricature of a doctor. Coloured etching by A.E. Guillaumot, 1885, after J. Falck.
  • Two circus elephants performing to a crowd by drinking and eating from a table. Coloured lithograph.
  • A rainbow against a blue sky, advertising "A point of no return", events in aid of AIDS-Hilfe Nürnberg-Fürth-Erlangen e.V. Colour lithograph, 1995.
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Performance by Dr Hugo Caffaratti

Gallery 1
Past

Part of Smoke and Mirrors Live Performances

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Performance by Dr Hugo Caffaratti

Gallery 1
Past

Part of Smoke and Mirrors Live Performances

  • Discussion

Love Letters in Conversation

The Forum
Past

Part of Love Letters to a Liveable Future, residency

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