The Varieties

12 Feb-11 Apr 2015

Overview

Harold Offeh with Jonathan Baldock, Mark Bleakley, Andrea Booker, Stuart Edmundson, David Mackintosh, Mexico (Simon Boase, James Maxfield, Zoe Sawyer), Erkka Nissinen, Florence Peake and Sean Penlington. The exhibition and performance programme draws on interests inherent in Offeh’s practice as well as the clown, acrobat and filmmaker Will Onda. Evoking and playing with conventions of 19th and 20th century variety theatre and music hall, Offeh’s work (that explores notions of performance, identity, futurism and collaboration) and the multiple identities of the Preston impresario, combine to inform the starting point for this exhibition.