#experimentica

U T O P I A 

PROLOGUE

Paul Becker & The Black Kettle Collective

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Beginning at the beginning….Artist Paul Becker will be the first to work with Arts Birthday Wales UTOPIA project. In what we hope will be a year of collaboration, reading, exchange and events, Paul will launch the project collaborating with the Swansea based, Black Kettle Collective.

Dylan Thomas Theatre, Gloucester Place, Swansea.

On the 17th of January come along to the Dylan Thomas Theatre, Swansea, to see a performed work based on the prologue of the seminal text. Commissioned by Arts Birthday Wales and Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, Paul Becker will create an environment and perforative elements in the iconic theatre, there will be other events and happenings on the night as we launch a year long project. Paul will also be collaborating with the Black Kettle Collective, the Glynn Vivian's Young Artists group through the galleries diverse and exciting learning and education projects. 

Paul Becker is an artist working in the UK exhibiting, publishing and performing nationally and internationally. Based in Newcastle Paul has close connections to Chapter Arts centre where he has exhibited and participated in the performance festival Experimentica. 

Paul Becker, Paul Becker I competitori 2009

I am a painter and writer working with a wide variety of influences (Literature, Film, History, Art History etc.) My work is especially concerned with narrative and attempts to view all of the above areas through the prism of painting, allowing for ambiguity in the content of the work itself as well as the blurring of boundaries between subject areas. 

Paul Becker

INVITATION TO PARTICIPATE 

To inform the performance we invite keywords, short statements, even images in response to the question: What do you find in Utopia? Please send your responses to [email protected] with the subject heading UTOPIA.

We'll post some o the blog over the next few days! Look forward to hearing from you!

SOUNDTRACK 

Have you read Utopia by Thomas Moore? If not here's an audio recording to get you inspired to send us your words and suggestions for the 17th.