Press Release: The Culture Show - March 2013

rom, londoncitynights.com, re. 'The Culture Show, Episode 4; the Cultural Wasteland of London' at LUPA17

 

 

"Up next was 'No Collective' doing a faux-Crimewatch sketch about the disappearance of culture from Romford. No Collective are Natalie Bays and Josef Easeman and their work is based around "investigating micro-cultures". It was very funny, one of the funniest things I've seen at a LUPA event I think. Their story explains how culture is 'trafficked' around the city which is personified as an abducted woman. There's a certain Chris Morris-y tinge to affairs, and they successfully capture some of the ridiculousness in an authority figure saying utterly ridiculous and bizarre things.

 

The highlight of this for me was Natalie's physical performance. There was a great mime styled bit where Josef was explaining how the 'kidnappers' of culture looked, while Natalie acted out how she'd imagine this description to look. More pointedly, there was some sharp skewering of the self-importance of the London cultural scene, which is always nice to see at events like this. Romford is both an intrinsic part of London and somewhere quite distant and faraway if you live more centrally - so the performance had a sort of 'insider-outsider' perspective that was quite refreshing."

 

 

for full review, please see http://www.londoncitynights.com/2013/03/lupa-17-behind-james-campbell-house.html

 



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