Salon 23 Howard Matthew 'Designs that don't work: a demonstration of ill-fated furniture' 19 & 20th April @ 8pm. To view the Videos of this event you must have Real Player version 8 Click icon to download Real Player 8 Videos Connection Speed Live Event 56k home presented Howard Mathew, in the second of the Intimate Journeys series, which included four intense, choreographed performance tours around the house at 1a Flodden Road, London. In the performance Howard built and demonstrated a series of extraordinary pieces of ill-fated furniture, which were placed around the house. Using a wide variety of spaces from the kitchen to playroom, he explained and demonstrated the furniture, employing the hapless and risky devices of slapstick, i.e. the jammed piano and collapsing chair. To accompany the 'rigged' furniture he presented technical drawings arranged into a manual which was used in the performance and was available for viewing by the audience. Howard's previous series 'Untitled Experiments' and 'Prototype Vehicles' have been widely performed including at The 3rd International Festival of Performance Art, St Petersburg. Also, 'Blip', a series of split second costume changes made inside telephone boxes with the aid of a smoke machine in Hull as part of Rootless, The International Festival of Time Based Art.

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