wykeham lodge

7 Harrington Road
Brighton, East Sussex BN1 6RE

http://www.sarahcameron.scot

Presenting a 7 piece performance film installation:

Merry Andra, Larmes de Clown, KNAG (work in progress)

“The CLOWN has great importance as part of the search for what is laughable and ridiculous in (hu)man. we should put the emphasis on the rediscovery of our own individual clown, the one that has grown up within us and which society does not allow us to express.” Jacques Lecoq

The CLOWN, at times an ambivalent figure, is the perfect personage to embody the ruinage of our age. The challenges we currently face – personal, domestic, national, global – stir strong passions. These films were borne from an intense time-limited 2 month period in 2022, with a focus on GRIEF, SORROW and RAGE. The first film Merry Andra was shown along with other experimental works as part of Sarah’s ongoing project experiments in emotion.

The KNAG* films are a study in sorrow. There were no rehearsals. Each film is one take. In each film a ‘new’ clown is introduced; each clown is given an intention and the simple task of eating an onion. Through the purely physical act of eating an onion, Sarah searches for sorrow – what happens to the clown while eating an onion, what happens to the viewer while watching the clown fulfil the task, what happens to the performer when discomfort and suffering kick in? Do the clowns become sorrowful, do we become sorrowful or contrarily, do we feel nothing at all, or a different emotion entirely? We are still experimenting! Experimental musical scores have been created for the films by composer James Keane.

On Sunday 26th May at 5pm there will be a short scratch performance.

Sarah trained at Chelsea School of Art (sculpture) and Ecole Jacques Lecoq in Paris. Sarah is a published writer (The Red Chair, Bloomsbury Methuen) and she has just won an Arts Council DYCP Grant.

with thanks to James Keane (sound and music)
and Charlie Doherty (camera)

KNAG: (Scots) *gnawing grief, heartache, pain; wearying, laborious toil

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