PRESENTED BY RENFREWSHIRE LEISURE
RHIANNON ARMSTRONG
POEMS MADE FROM WORDS FOUND IN THE BIN
Adrian Howells Award recipient 2019.
In libraries across Paisley & Glasgow
26 - 29 May 2020
CANCELLED
ACCESS: This is a gentle interactive piece that will be adapted to suit different access requirements. All TMS venues are wheelchair accessible. Email sian@takemesomewhere.co.uk if you require more information.
“An attempt to make something beautiful and true from shreds of discarded paper.”
Rhiannon will be in residence across Paisley & Glasgow libraries, inviting members of the public to work with her to write poetry around shreds of paper found in bins in the city and beyond.
The resulting Poems Made from Words Found in the Bin are animated and added to a growing collection, written by people in Portsmouth, Lincoln, Brighton and London. Look out for films of existing Poems Made from Words Found in the Bin, on show at various locations in Paisley and Glasgow throughout the festival.
The animated poems are then uploaded onto the Slow GIF Movement channel on Giphy, which allows your poem to be read and shared globally on messaging apps and social media. Once your poem is part of the collection it can go on to be screened in other places as the project travels, including (so far) advertising billboards in Brighton, Victorious Festival in Portsmouth, and Wellcome Collection in London.
Rhiannon Armstrong is the 2019 recipient of the Adrian Howells Award for Intimate Performance. She makes works with empathy, interaction, and dialogue at their core, and brings the audience-focus of a theatre background to richly inclusive, interdisciplinary work. This work includes performance, installation, street interventions, web-based works and audio projects.
Recent work includes The Soothing Presence of Strangers for Waltham Forest Borough of Culture (an audio piece made to be listened to on a bus including field recordings, interviews with bus drivers, and original music). Rhiannon is currently undertaking research and development on a new work, The White Noise Factory, exploring tactile ways of making and experiencing sound.
The 2019-2020 Adrian Howells Award for Intimate Performance is led by the National Theatre of Scotland, The Sick Of The Fringe, Battersea Arts Centre and Take Me Somewhere Festival with support from the University of Glasgow and the Live Art Development Agency.
Images: 1 - 3 Leonardo Lami / 4 Vickie Fear