Yoko Ishiguro & Fiona Templeton - Mixing It Up
Channel: NewWorkNetwork
Date: 2012-05-08

'Mixing It Up: An Intergenerational Perspective' is a series of 5 short filmed dialogues between two artists / artist groups across different generations exploring how they sustain their practices. For more details on the project visit: http://www.newworknetwork.info/learning/mixing-it-up-an-intergenerational-per...

The films consider similarities and differences between the contexts, modes and conditions of respective artistic practices from the late 60's to the present day, while also looking at approaches to sustaining practice over the years both from a practical and critical perspective. The films will be released weekly.

This is the third film of the series - a dialogue between Yoko Ishiguro and Fiona Templeton (http://www.fionatempleton.org/). 

Yoko Ishiguro is a performance maker, performer and actress. She studied psycholinguistics  at the University of Tsukuba and has worked with theatre companies in Japan. In 2005, she started to make her own site-specific pieces and to explore the relationship between time and distance as well as presence and absence, self and non-self, and the functions of those dichotomies. She has performed in Japan, China, Indonesia, UK and other parts of Europe and is currently studying on  the Contemporary Performance Making MA course of Brunel University.

Fiona Templeton's work includes poetry, installation and performance. She is director of the New York-based group The Relationship, specialising in experimentation in language, relationship with the audience, and use of site.  Current work includes Aguas Dulces, Aguas Saladas, in the San Juan Estuary in Puerto Rico, and a 6-part performance epic, The Medead, forthcoming in New York in December. She has received awards in various disciplines and has published 12 books. Fiona leads the MA in Contemporary Performance Making at Brunel University.

Filmed by Fiona Melville. Music by Robbie Lockwood.

Created in partnership with New Work Network and Artquest.

Supported by Arts Council England, University of the Arts London and Student Enterprise & Employability