MYTHS & METAMORPHOSIS | NATIONAL REVIEW OF LIVE ART 2009

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A series of film & photographic works National Review of Live Art 2009 The Arches, 253 Argyle St, Glasgow G2 8DL Scotland UK Weds 11th Feb 18.00-22.30 Thurs 12th Feb 13.00-22.30 Helena Hunter presents a menagerie of mythic monsters, hybrid forms, and bodily transformations in Myths & Metamorphosis, a series of film and photographic works exploring the dark and magical world of Greek mythology. Referring primarily to Ovid's Metamorphosis, Hunter explores the text as a visual language using her body as subject to recast the myths. The stories depicted include Hera, whose breast milk formed the Milky Way, Scylla, with ferocious dogs in place of her lower limbs, and Europa who was ravished by a giant bull whilst gathering flowers in a meadow. Myths & Metamorphosis was developed in collaboration with filmmaker Chiara Ambrosio and sound artist Mark Wright, with the generous support of Chelsea Theatre, London. This new work follows the success of Tracing Shadows presented at The National Review of Live Art 2008. Helena Hunter website http://www.helenahunter.com/home.html NRLA website http://www.newmoves.co.uk/event-list-2009-national-review-of-live-art/40-national-review-of-live-art/528-helena-hunter Book tickets http://www.thearches.co.uk/NRLAtheatre.htm Tracing Shadows Press: ‘A fairy tale world that combines the seductive and the destructive, the childlike and the adult, desire and the artificiality of desire…eerie, compelling, and haunting.' RealTime Arts Magazine ‘Helena Hunter sculpts with her body the dark conflict between inner and outer selves; this is a hallucinatory and uncompromising act of self-portraiture with powerful contemporary resonance' Marina Warner ‘…pure genius…an utterly spellbinding performance'. Run Riot