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I’m Here - A new performance by Franko B

21 Oct 2021

Regular hours

Thu, 21 Oct
20:00 – 21:30

Cost of entry

£4-15

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Norwich Arts Centre

Norwich, United Kingdom

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  • Norwich Bus Station is 0.6 miles away, and takes about 10 minutes to walk or 5 minutes by taxi.
  • By car from London, approach Norwich on the A11. Keep going along this road until you reach the inner ring road (there will be shops straight ahead on St. Stephens Street). Turn left at the roundabout on to Chapelfield Road, then keep going (past the Chap
  • Norwich Train Station is 1.1 miles away from Norwich Arts Centre, and is approximately 15 minutes walk or 7 minutes by taxi.
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I’m Here is a new performance by Franko B coming to Norwich Arts Centre on Thursday 21st October 2021 at 8pm. Performance followed by a talk and Q&A with Franko B, Dr Sylwia Serafinowicz (a/political) and Professor Sarah Wilson (The Courtauld)

About

I’m Here is a new performance by Franko B, in collaboration with Anthony Martin. Known internationally as a pioneering performance artist, Franko B revisits his seminal bloodletting works for the first time in 15 years through 360° body-mapping techniques. The deep cuts, at times exaggerated and distorted, are interwoven with 7000 images from the internet, to show a global history of war, abandonment, homophobia, freedom, displacement, famine and sex through the lens of the camera. The performance confronts the viewers with an emotionally charged choreographed experience that ultimately equates the pain of the individual with the open wounds of society.

“The past is part of our present. It never left us but is evolving rather than repeating; it is continuing to allow us to make the same mistakes. I believe this is valid for both the personal and political. I’m Here is trying to express these two connected worlds. It doesn’t revisit the past romantically or melancholically but questions and reinterprets it.” Franko B

Throughout 2021, I’m Here is touring across the UK to: Arnolfini, Bristol; Colchester Arts Centre, Colchester; Globe Gallery, Newcastle; Norwich Arts Centre, Norwich; Ugly Duck, London.

I’m Here is a collaboration with a/political and supported using public funding by Arts Council National Lottery Project Grant.

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