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Image: Don't Leave Me This Way / Photographer: Manuel Vason
Image: Don't Leave Me This Way
Photographer: Manuel Vason
FRANKO B IN COLLABORATION WITH KAMAL ACKARIE
Performance, Interdisciplinary

SIZE OF COMPANY
1–4 on the road

SCALE OF VENUE
Small- to middle-scale

PERMANENT STAFF
Artistic Director
Irini-Mirena Papadimitriou

ARTISTIC POLICY
Franko B’s performance work deals with the vulnerability of the human body and the beauty that is bound up with its inner frailty.

REVIEW EXTRACTS
'I begin telling a man I have never met that I’m there because a year previous I hit rock bottom… I tell him about the loneliness and the isolation and the desperation and the thoughts of suicide… I tell him I’m here, naked, because I’m alright with myself now... I feel as close to any human as I have ever felt.' Irish Times Weekend Review

CURRENT PRODUCTIONS
Don’t Leave Me This Way Franko B in collaboration with Kamal Ackarie. This piece marks a challenge in Franko B’s performance practice, formalising his recent departure from blood-based work. Franko allows the viewer time to look at his body and approach it as a sculptural form. His body is not a “universal” body: it is heavily tattooed and scarred, voluptuous in shape and size. (11 mins, 1 on stage, 3–4 on the road, contains nudity.)

WRAP-AROUND
Illustrated talks/lectures, mentoring/tutorials, DJ-ing, painting, sculpture, photography, video and installation. Franko B’s recent projects include a mentoring scheme with artists. For more information please visit www.franko-b-mentoring.co.uk or www.de-mentored.blogspot.com

RECENT INTERNATIONAL WORK
2006 Italy (Don’t Leave Me This Way)
2005 Ireland (Oh Lover Boy/Aktion 893/Why Are You Here?), Belgium (I Miss You)

TOURING AVAILABILITY
Details on request