pushin’ sumthin’ nice (feat. Kinlaw)
Marie Toseland
Marie Toseland works with sculpture, photography, performance, sound and written text.
For pushin’ sumthin’ nice (feat. Kinlaw), she presented a series of discrete though interlocking new works, produced in part with the musician Kinlaw, as the opening scene of her latest project – an experimental opera in which objects are given voices and cast as characters.
Using Nouveau Roman literature, the plays of Luigi Pirandello, and Battle Rap as its point of departure, the opera will unfold over a number of parts. Spanning exhibition and live event, it will ultimately explore the combined potential of language and form, mercurial narrative, and the disquieting nature of control.
For this first scene, Marie introduces a group of unlikely characters. A perv, a mope, a mute, a mouth, all selfishly engaged in a futile, monologic relay which doesn’t really get them anywhere.
Because speech creates. And I don’t just mean that it’s creating a mental image, I’m saying that unactualised form has a physical sister, in the mouth of the orator. That through the movements of the tongue and the jaw a tactile form is actually produced; although you can’t keep it. The poetics of the interior: it has its own rhythm, and it rolls around, selfishly theirs, the mouth’s self caress, and there’s no way of possessing it. Which comes back to pleasure, really, doesn’t it? The pleasure of a form in the mouth; the way your tongue moves around it, sculpting it out; the pleasure of the motion.
Extract from Mouth Piece
2014
The exhibition was part of the South West Showcase, a recurring open call platform (est 2013), showcasing artists from across the South West region. The showcase aims to support contemporary artists working and living in the South West through a year long programme of mentoring and support with an exhibition outcome; presenting a long-term commitment to profiling and supporting the practices of artists in this region.
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Lisa Davison (BA Hons Fine Art student)
Toseland works with sculpture, photography, performance, sound and written text. Drawing inspiration from Nouveau Roman literature, the plays of Luigi Pirandello and battle rap, Toseland has created a solo show which sets the opening scene for an experimental opera.
South West Showcase
