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Now I Gotta Reason" Film Screening"

21 Nov 2012

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3-4pm

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Free

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Jerwood Arts

London
England, United Kingdom

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Now I Gotta Reason" Film Screening"

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Mark Aerial Waller will present his film Karpouziaa (18 mins), a video document of a live event by Mark Aerial Waller commissioned by Whitley Arts Festival, Reading. The improvised public performance, becoming sales experiment, was held for a single day at the end of September 2009, and documented on video with participation of the community of Whitley. Karpouziaaa tests the edge between fiction and action, between make-believe play and work. For one day Waller set up a mobile vegetable shop with residents of Whitley, South Reading, calling out songs and items for sale over a megaphone, in a manner often seen in eastern Mediterranean countries. A salesperson drives slowly through residential areas calling attention to the goods over a loudspeaker. The salesperson's voice becomes a bold rhythmic poem — a public voice usually associated with political canvassing and totalitarian Science Fiction states. The realm of poetry is made concrete for a day through the routine of buying and selling. Now I Gotta Reason" is a Jerwood Encounter that focuses on art production as a useful and productive activity. "

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