Since both of us have been reading ‘Lipstick Traces’ we got talking about the great little rebellions which the book talks about. We are both interested in making something fun and a bit out of the ordinary to intervene with the everyday.
We started talking about how we could create an intervention or event which used places in Sherwood.
We had an idea last year for the Arena Festival in Leicester, but we would have only had a week to prepare it so we didn’t manage to make it happen. It involved table tennis, the pub they were using for their opening night, a Boris Johnson mask and the Chinese girl – Yang Peiyi who had to sing for another girl at the Olympics last year as she was deemed to be too ‘ugly’. We had wanted to develop our puppetry experience and make Boris and Yang Peiyi play table tennis against each other in a faked championing of the little girl who was too ‘ugly’ to sing.
Hmm will the pub tables be long enough?
So for SAW we have decided to expand on this idea by creating an artwork for Sherwood’s public that could be utilised and played with! A portable table tennis kit which we will hopefully get local pubs to allow us to set up across pub tables. The kit will be created from beer mats and we would also like to leave instructions so it can be passed on and created again and again..
