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PERMANENT STAFF
Artist/Director
Gary Stevens
Artists’ Producer (for Artsadmin)
Nicky Childs

ARTISTIC POLICY
Gary Stevens is an artist who creates performances and video installations, working with a wide range of visual artists and performers from diverse backgrounds. The work is the result of long, practical, and material development; the staging and productions are simple and stark, but the structures are rich, compelling, and complex. His solo and ensemble works have been presented internationally in gallery, theatre, and dance contexts, in festivals and public spaces.

REVIEW EXTRACTS
Gary Stevens, one of Britain’s most original performers.
Art Monthly
Wake Up and Hide provokes a strange, vaguely omnipotent rush… (it) functions as a witty satire of our interactive press-the-red-button, you-decide-who-goes age.
The Telegraph
Sculptors, film makers, performers and realist painters (on the show’s evidence, Stevens’ sensibility is a combination of these) will come flocking from all directions to feast eyes on.
Art Review

CURRENT PRODUCTIONS
Ape
1hr 15, 3 performers. Three performers are inextricably linked by one rule, to copy and ape each other’s behaviour.
 Actions and words soon spin out of control as the performers continue to copy the copy.
Wake Up And Hide
Two-screen interactive video installation with sound. 1-2 crew for set up. Wake Up And Hide shows two interiors inhabited by performers. Their action may be interrupted by noise from spectators in the gallery. There is a play between contained and impervious images and the intimacy of a live encounter.
Slow Life
Five-screen video installation. 1-2 crew for set up. In Slow Life, momentary encounters between the performers are held to become intimate exchanges, where everyday incidents and seemingly insignificant events are played very slowly.

FUTURE PRODUCTIONS
Box Of Hours
Video installation. Artist + 1 crew to set up
Illuminating four sides of a floating box, Box of Hours is a repeating cycle of twelve landscapes filmed from four perspectives and capturing a specific season or time of year. The cube will literally contain a series of environments.

WRAP-AROUND
Workshops, masterclasses, artist talks, post-performance discussions, lectures/seminars for artists and students in higher education and longer residency periods, working with groups of local or student participants to create a piece.

RECENT INTERNATIONAL WORK
2008 Switzerland, Tunisia: Slow Life + Not Tony/1 week workshop and lecture, Ape
2007 Belgium: Ape

TOURING AVAILABILITY
Ape: Touring Feb/March 2009 (Including USA) additional dates can be added.
All other installations available for presentation and Gary also open to one-off commissions.