Michael Grove (played by John Voce) dictates the National Curriculum for the Arts to his senior civil servant Hetty Nettleship (played by Julia Rayner), while serenaded by Tim Sidall.
Still from the Film ‘Art Party’ by Tim Newton and Bob and Roberta Smith.
The Art Party 2013 launched at the Art Fund on the 20th September. Lesley Butterworth of the NSEAD explains why she’ll be presenting the alternative National Curriculum in Scarborough on November 23rd. Is it a Party, or is it Art? Film by Tim Newton and Bob and Roberta Smith.
Following the successful Art Party Conference Tim Newton and Bob are making a film of the event to be launched in August 2014. Tim and Bob collaborated recently on Who is Community?
A fictional meeting and love affair on the Central line between the founder of the modern Olympic Games, Pierre de Coubertin, and German political theorist Hannah Arendt, is the basis for the short film and a series of images at Stratford Underground station.
Bob and Roberta Smith and Tim Newton
Wednesday 17 October 2012
Stratford Underground station from 6:30pm
Theatre Royal Stratford East from 7pm
Free but places limited, please RSVP.
020 7027 8694
Contact us if you have any access requirements.
The Stratford Cinema Kiosk is a new, specially-designed structure modelled on an original 1920s ticket booth. The kiosk will be showing Bob and Roberta Smith and Tim Newton’s film, Who is Community?, which was commissioned by Art on the Underground this year. A fictional meeting and love affair on the Central line between the founder of the modern Olympic Games, Pierre de Coubertin, and German political theorist Hannah Arendt, is the basis for the short film and a series of images at Stratford Underground station. Life-size cut-outs of characters from the film have appeared around the Stratford neighbourhood, advertising the coming of The Stratford Cinema Kiosk.
Please join us at Stratford Underground station to unveil the new artwork, before heading to the nearby Theatre Royal Stratford East for the Who is Community? Hannah Arendt Quiz Night,which will include a reading of the film script with live musical accompaniment by Tim Newton and a pub quiz designed by Bob and Roberta Smith. Musician Claire Woods will round out the evening with eclectic pop on the piano.