Theatre for One is project conceived by Christine Jones , a freelance set designer.

Theatre for One is a portable performing arts space for one performer and one audience member, that turns public events into private acts.

You can check a video here.

Lullaby is a gentle, slumber show designed to send you to sleep. Bring your pyjamas and toothbrush and pile up the zzz’s at this romantic rock-a-bye nocturne. Book a single, a double or a triple bed and sleep with us on a summer night in the city. Enjoy your reveries as sister songstresses H. Plewis, Harriet Plewis and domestic dreamers Matthew Robins and Tim Spooner create a nod-off narrative of soothing storytelling and choral cradle song.

Lullaby is a moonlit soporific serenade followed by seven hours of slow-wave sleep rounded-off by breakfast to send you on your way.

via Barbican

Yolanda Domínguez is a Spanish artist who works from what is disquieting, handling situations that are sensitive and disturbing for the spectator. Her aim is to generate social criticism and a reaction.

“Poses” is a direct criticism of the absurd and artificial world of glamour and of fashion that magazines present. Specifically, the highly-distorted image of women that they transmit through models that do not represent real women and that avoid all those who are not within their restricted parameters.

These images are virtually the only feminine reference in the mass media and they have a great influence in both men and women when building our roles in terms of behavior and ways of thinking.

Using these impossible stances of the fashion publishing houses as a symbol of how grotesque and unreal this industry is, a group of real women transfer these poses to daily scenes: the queue of a museum, the supermarket or the bus stop, sparking off the reaction of the spectators (on the other hand, regular consumers of these images).

The aim: to make it clear how ridiculous, and at times harmful, it can be to follow these models that the world of glamour impose on us.

Nexus Vomitus is a collaboration between the artist Millie Brown and opera singers Patricia Hammond and Zita Syme. SHOWstudio documented this one-off performance where Millie created a rainbow-like spectrum of vomit on canvas to Patricia and Zita’s melodic interlude, using milk dyed with food coloring. You can buy the Nexus Vomitus piece for £ 1,500 if you want to.

You can watch the video here.

Via:Today and tomorrow

‘The Swimming Cities of Serenissima’ is a great project initiated by the artist Swoon, where  a crew, consisting of almost 30 artists from the United States, is sailing the Adriatic Sea from Slovenia to Venice, and, once in there, offering exciting performances to the locals.

Before the experience in the Adriatic Sea, they had already been on the Hudson River in 2008 and on the Mississippi River in 2006/2007. The next adventure will be in India. Soon they’re going to float down the Ganges River from Farrukhabad to Varanasi. ‘The Ocean of Blood’ will stop in different towns and villages across the river, in order to collaborate with local craftsmen to customize and beautify their boats in an Indian style. Their aim is to create once again a complex and unusual system of boats, a floating island moved by motorcycles, winds or manpower, built together with local artists and schools in the neighborhood.

The Ice Book is the story of a princess who lures a boy into the forest in order to warm her heart of ice.
The performance blends animation, puppetry, and film to bring a pop-up book vividly to life in front of the audience’s eyes.

In this video created by Tate, artists John Wood and Paul Harrison present their funny work.

Via: It’s Nice That

Taxi Driver is a site specific intervention made by the contemporary artist Aldo Giannotti.

Inspired by Martin Scorsese’s classic film, a taxi driver from Linz, Austria,is paid to have his hair shaved into a Mohawk. He goes about his daily work with this altered appearance. For the driver, talking with his passengers about his hair style, the film or the art project is neither prohibited nor expected. Cards are simply available in the taxi that indicate the concept and the exhibition, in which a large-format picture of the shaven-headed taxi driver hangs. In the film, the taxi driver played by Robert De Niro runs into social injustice in the metropolis of New York, which he opposes – through his rebellious appearance, among other things. The real Linz Taxi Driver will evoke associations with the film figure by his appearance on the one hand, but on the other will also draw attention to social contrasts. Personal encounters between people in the social fabric of a city are intensified and become part of an art work.

Via Jordan Matter