SIZE OF COMPANY
2 on the road

SCALE OF VENUE
Small to medium

PERMANENT STAFF
Artist/Performer
Marcia Farquhar
Co-Producer
J. Maizlish

ARTISTIC POLICY
With roots in Conceptualism, and building on a background in painting, sculpture, and art history, Farquhar’s practice incorporates an open range of media and social and conceptual strategies. Her work revolves around the stories and interactions of her everyday life, particularly in relation to the meaning and histories of objects. Reconsidering and reconfiguring works from the last 10 years, 12 Shooters is her most ambitious project to date, and offers an unusually varied overview of her performance work.

REVIEW EXTRACTS
Farquhar’s work addresses the fixed polarity of audience and performer in a lively and engaging way, imbuing the role of raconteur or storyteller with complex pertinence.
Kirsten Norrie, Art Monthly (12 Shooters)
Building up a palimpsest of stories, quotations and drawings, Farquhar works literally from the margins, putting the writing on the walls.
Art Monthly(Of Course She Jumped)
Too exuberant an individual to be lost for words, Farquhar’s solo show proved to be funny, feisty and surprisingly touching.
Real Time Arts, Mary Brennan

CURRENT PRODUCTIONS
12 Shooters
Preceded by a live introduction, 12 Shooters is a programme of short films in which Farquhar dedicates a selection of her past live works to the cameras of other artists.
Production length: 120 mins.
Black and White and Red All Over
A discussion of family and fashion in which Farquhar presents 3 giant paper doll dresses, based on a work she created 12 years ago for her mother and daughters to wear.
Production length: appx. 60 mins.
Acts of Clothing
After a precarious, untutored dance in her famous tartan flamenco dress, Farquhar models and discusses a lifetime’s worth of past outfits, offering a complex, semi-improvised and often humourous catwalk confessional.
Production length: 75-100 mins.

WRAP-AROUND
12 Shooters
The evening will begin with a live introduction by the artist, including 1 or 2 short performances, followed by a screening of the 12 Shooters showreel. A 190 pp. book has been produced to accompany the work, featuring contributions from the artists and essays by Stuart Brisley, Peter Suchin, Tony Grisoni and others.
The screening can be followed by a formal or informal discussion and/or a book-signing. The work itself is aimed at all age ranges, and for general public audiences and fine art audiences alike.
The artist is not a theatrical performer, but comes rather from a visual art and performance art background. The work aims in part to provide a broad platform for the discussion of live/performance art and its relationship to and reliance on recorded media for its documentary after-life.
Black and White and Red All Over
The evening culminates with Farquhar inviting members of her audience to climb into the 3 large garments, which together fit 21 people. How exactly the event and the evening progress from there is open and negotiable. Farquhar is available for post-performance discussion.

RECENT INTERNATIONAL WORK
2008 New York, USA: 12 Shooters
2008 Germany: Always Something There to Remind Me
2007 Spain/Austria: Phoning In
2007 Ireland: Miss Memory Recalls

TOURING AVAILABILITY
Negotiable