Site-specific performance
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Shadows is a new performance collaboration between the artist Terry Smith and performer/composer Randolph Matthews.
Shadows incorporates many different and diverse source material, drawn from personal experiences, observations with influences including Kafka’s The Metamorphosis, Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein and the sound of the dysfunctional beer dispensing machine in the Quarterhouse bar. The buildings own particular quirks and sounds are a signifiant factor in the work.
The work has grown out of discussions, workshops, rehearsals and play, it is an ongoing collaborative experiment to create a fluid site-specific performance work that is bespoke for any gallery, theatre or off-site setting.
Randolph’s interdisciplinary compositions & vocal performances span over two decades where he has collaborated with artists from both the jazz, blues and contemporary art scene internationally, including grammy award winner Jazz legend Herbie Hancock and most recently as a composer for choreographer Alesandra Seutin new work performed at Saddlers Wells and Southbank. He is currently composer in residence at the Quarterhouse.
Terry’s entire art production is in one way or another site-specific. Creating interventions and disruptions in buildings and museums world-wide, including The British Museum, MACBA in Barcelona and at the Drawing Center in NY. His performance work has largely been shown abroad, but this collaborative work follows on from Mirror Mirror presented at the QH in September this year where Randolph joined as a performer.