Artist Statement
tatty-del are friends and performance collaborators Natalie Clarke and Hana Tait. They make work starting with their own relationship and using real life re-enactments, live game-playing and stand-up storytelling to explore different types of personal connection: what it is that breaks people apart and what it takes to hold them together. Their work is low tech, anti-theatrical, sometimes humorous and always striving to be honest.
tatty-del are making it work
Love Stories vol.1
the Involved
Tongue
Coast/Coast
Natalie Clarke
Natalie Clarke is the high frequency, exhibitionist half of tatty-del. A long-time information junkie she spends her time looking, talking, listening, moving and obsessively recording things. Natalie is a performance enthusiast and an enthusiastic performer, regularly collaborating with Joseph Mercier, PanicLab and Antique Women. She has also performed with Living Structures, Mem Morrison Company and Station House Opera and assisted arts organizations and artists such as Bryony Kimmings, Extant, Joshua Sofaer and Mary Paterson.
Hana Tait
Hana Tait is the quieter, more conservative half of tatty-del. She works as an artist-educator and makes her own work (spanning events, workshops, videos and page-based art) as director of the Possibility Archive project. She is interested in appearances of narrative and theatricality in daily life, particularly in exploring the boundaries between authenticity and performance. She likes working with people and tries not to draw too much distinction between working with collaborators, participants or audiences.
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SATURDAY 10TH MARCH - PERFORMANCE AT SUPPER CLUB, THE BASEMET, BRIGHTON
WEDNESDAY 21ST MARCH - PERFORMANCE AT JAM, THE JUNCTION, CAMBRIDGE
MAY - PERFORMANCE AS PART OF THE HUNT & DARTON CAFE, CAMBRIDGE
SATURDAY 2ND JUNE - PERFORMANCE AT PULSE FRINGE FESTIVAL, NEW WOLSEY THEATRE, IPSWICH
SATURDAY 30TH JUNE - PERFORMANCE AT NEW PERFORMANCE, NORWICH ARTS CENTRE, NORWCH
tatty-del are now supported as part of Escalator Performing Arts
Currently in development
In Summer 2011 tatty-del held a crisis meeting in the café of the Royal Festival Hall where, in the face of serial disappointment and existential uncertainty, Natalie tried to ‘break up’ with Hana and move on with her life. Each have had many ‘best friends’ in the past. Each have started many projects that didn’t come to fruition. Resolving to give one last attempt to making it work they begun telling each other stories - of friendship, perseverance and success, status anxiety, schadenfreude and the ways we measure human worth.
Previous work-in-progress showings:
Show Us Yer Bits!, The Roundhouse London (Jan 2012)
[curated by GETINTHEBACOFTHEVAN]
Scratch!, The Basement, Brighton (Dec 2012)
PILOTLight, Birmingham (Oct 2011)
Freshly Scratched, Battersea Arts Centre, London (Oct 2011)
Mad Artists Tea Party, Felxstowe, Suffolk (Sept 2011);
R&D Showing (Aug 2010) at CVT Art Space, Herts.
A theatrical set formed of romantic clichés (the park bench, the bar, the front-door step), brought to life through one-to-one performer-audience interaction. The choreographies of courtship made visible through the performers desire to, genuinely or cynically, fall in love with her audience. Or to fall in love with the reflection of herself in their eyes.
Immersive one-to-one performance exploring the architecture of theatricality and its effect on audience agency. Audience move through a series of rooms encountering different scenarios - in order to progress they are required to perform participation through accomplishing the objective of each interaction.
An oration about cultural belonging, split between two voices and read aloud. A grand biblical quest in search of the tongue. The two readers grapple, interlock and undermine each other, agree, disagree and agree to disagree, tell anecdotes, reminisce and try to decipher who is interviewing whom.
A series of small performance interactions taking place on a train journey across America, from New York to Los Angeles. Exploring cultural exchange, fetishization, representing your homeland and the trading of spoons.
