Macartney, Raquel

3/10/2009

Audio file duration: 00:24:20 Format of original recording: wav 44.1 khz 16 bit ZOOM digital recorder.

Raquel Macartney lives and works in Manchester. She was born in London, her mother moved here and her father stayed in the Philippines. As a result he has never had much contact with her since she was a child, and she talked about this and how it came into play in her work as a performance artist. She graduated last year with an MA in performance. Described how she always pushed herself physically and mentally and also described the piece of work she was performing on the plinth which was called 'The Drive'. It involved crawling in an out of a filing cabinet, from which the drawers had been removed. At one stage she had sixteen similar filing cabinets in her studio which she lined up in the corridor and climbed through. Likes pushing herself through small spaces.

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