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wings of desire – secret cinema

admin — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 15:18:35 +0000

angels and east germans patrolled shepherds bush green last night as secret cinema brought wim wenders’ wings of desire to life in the elegantly dilapidated pavilion cinema. the hi-light for me was the trapeze and rope artists, so neatly synced with on-screen action, throwing graceful shadows onto peeling paint.

trapeze practise

admin — Mon, 25 May 2009 14:56:18 +0000

i actually prefer these images to the ones i used in my home/performance project, it aint a performance so i couldn’t use em. i think its a better portrait of zoe, especially the details of hands and feet, gripping on ferociously. plus the fluorescent lighting in the practice room gives a lovely green tinge to the brick walls.

home/performance – zoe atkinson

admin — Sat, 23 May 2009 12:49:41 +0000

An old friend and flatmate, I have lived with Zoë for two years. She is a headstrong and proud woman who loves her friends and love to gossip. With a history of art, having graduated from a fine art degree three years ago she occasionally paints and produces conceptual collages.

Her main creative output is in ariel acrobatics, particularly trapeze. She spends all of her spare cash on lessons and practice time and is constantly trying out new techniques and going over routines in her head. Despite all this, she is quite lazy. It is fascinating that she can spend two days lying around in her room doing nothing then get up and go to a class and perform wonderfully graceful, elegant acrobatics then come home and eat a kebab and go to bed. Its such a wonderful contrast that I don’t think anyone would guess at if they met her in her everyday life.

Zoë lives in a flat in a council estate in Highbury, a homely environment where she can relax. She plays the unruly teenager of the house as opposed to me, the mum and Joe the grandad. She is often to be found slouched on the sofa watching TV, drinking tea and smoking cigarettes.