13-06-2011
The Breakfast Sculpture is a specially commissioned one-off performance on 18 June, conceived and produced by Mel Brimfield to coincide with her current YSP exhibition This is Performance Art. In collaboration with Dinnington Colliery Band, stars of BBC2’s A Band for Britain, and composer Paul Higgs, the award-winning New Art Club present this new work based on Morecambe and Wise’s infamous breakfast-making sketch.
The evening begins with a walk through YSP’s stunning landscape with musical accompaniment by Dinnington Colliery Band, followed by an introduction to the exhibition by YSP Curator Helen Pheby. There will be a interval, with ice creams available to purchase and a complimentary glass of wine, before the special one-off performance of The Breakfast Sculpture followed by another piece from the New Art Club’s repertoire.
The YSP Cafe at Kennel Block, Shop and Underground Gallery will be open until 7.00pm on 18 June, and This is Performance Art continues in the Bothy Gallery until 3 July 2011.
Brimfield, a London-based artist and curator, is particularly interested in Performance Art and playfully re-imagines inspired by real artists, artworks and pop culture influences. Recognising that performance art is difficult to document and represent accurately, Brimfield toys with the truth and for her YSP exhibition has produced fabricated information, objects and ephemera to support her often comical parallel realities, demonstrating her capacity to subvert the truth and create entirely fictional scenarios that prove to be intuitively plausible.
Mel Brimfield is represented by Ceri Hand?Gallery in Liverpool.She has worked at the Institute of Contemporary Art; the?Liverpool Biennial; Pump House Gallery; Battersea Arts Centre; Camden Arts Centre; Whitstable Biennial; The International 3; De Appel and, most recently, Frieze Art Fair.