Punchdrunk x Woolwich Contemporary Art Fair Talk

Interesting talk at Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair at Woolwich Works examining a collaboration between these cultural neighbours.

In a day of disappointment around talks at the show (see my previous post) it seemed inevitable that the IT failed for this event and it started late but Georgia Figgis, Community Engagement Manager at the immersive theatre company, Punchdrunk, and Cia Durrante, Head of Partnerships and VIPs for the print fair coped well and luckily it was a talk that didn't really need images.

They discussed how their collaboration had come about and why collaboration is important to artistic creation and to help in these straightened times for the arts. Figgis talked about how every visitors’ visit to the show was unique as they went round in their own way and like the way their theatrical productions work.

The talk was full of ambition and hopefully will lead to great things in the future, but they talked about how this had to be tempered by reality so the outcome is a small exhibition at Punchdrunk by four artists reacting to the last Punchdrunk production. 

I did go over to the show in the Punchdrunk building and liked the few works shown there such as these by Ruth Blanke but if felt like a bit of a whimper after such as aspirational talk also there was no signage to get you there  or anything within the fair to tell you it existed.