Event

Improv Night: Myth
Mash Guru, Macclesfield
27 February 2018

About this event
One of a series of experimental art performance nights at music venue Mash Guru, curated and organised by Sabine Kussmaul and Mark Sheeky. The theme of the evening was Myth.

The night began with a story about Yin and Yang by Michael Chisholm from his Deck of Tales, then Mark Sheeky and Deborah Edgeley performed a robot confession of modern sins. A film by M4SK 22, Simon Woolham, was shown next, followed by an acoustic guitar song by Michael Chisholm about death myths.

Claire Bassi read a poem and answered questions about Palestine, trying to address modern myths about the Middle East. Sabine showed a 20 minute video by American artist, Joan Jonas. Everyone then heard a short story by Becca Smith (who was not in attendance), and audience drew their ideas of what the main character might look like.

The night ended with a revitiation of a performance by Mark and Sabine from two years earlier called The Illusion of Myth, about how stories change with each re-telling. Mark Sheeky read the script while Deborah Edgeley and Claire Bassi were threaded to each other with cling-wrap, making something like a giant 'cats cradle'. The pair were standing in the projector beam, casting the translucent shadows of the wrap onto the moving film.