Mixing It Up: Yoko Ishiguro and Fiona Templeton
Channel: Artquest, London
Date: 09/05/2012

'Mixing It Up: An Intergenerational Perspective' is a series of 5 short films, created in partnership by Artquest and New Work Network.

Documenting dialogues between two artists / artist groups from different generations, these films consider similarities and differences between the contexts, modes and conditions of respective artistic practices from the late 60's and the present day. They also looking approaches to sustaining practice over the years both from a practical and critical perspective.

This episode see's artists Yoko Ishiguro and Fiona Templeton in dialogue.

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.

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.