She and Her are taking the audience on an underground journey back in time.
Set in the two lift spaces either side of Greenwich Foot Tunnel the artists are creating an unusual connection between the two sides of the Thames River. Upon arrival the visitor is drawn into the remnants of an initially one off secret performance; two women of strangely familiar and correlating looks are travelling the tunnel departing either side, meeting in its exact low point. In this moment the viewer is witnessing an unexpected encounter during which clothing falls to the ground and something unnamed is exchanged. After this wordless occurrence the women part into opposite directions as if nothing has happened.
Transformed into an unusual documentation of this event She and Her Exchange is a puzzle that asks the visitors to put the fragments together in their own head. It invites the audience to shift their perceptions of encountering strangers and proposes scenarios for unexpected social interaction.
1st – 29th of April 2008
Greenwich Foot Tunnel
Cutty Sark Gardens
London SE10 9HT
Opening Hours:
Monday to Saturday 7 am - 7 pm
Sunday 10 am - 5.30 pm
Free Admission
Meet the artists in the lifts on Saturday 5th of April between 11 am and 12.30 pm.
She and Her Exchange is created as part of Cupboard Love and presented by Occupymytime.
Notes to Editors
She and Her are an emerging female performance duo creating public interventions in urban environments. Exploring the underlying rules and parameters of sites and their inhabitants the duo sets out to map the environment through a set of rules they place on themselves which frame their exploration.
Their interest lies in the juxtaposition of notions of the private and the public through playful inversion and transformation of expected behaviour patterns.
