Smith/Stewart

Smith/Stewart plan to use their Creative Lab residency as a period of research and development to explore the relationships between sculpture and performance.

Mechanics of personal inter-relations drive their work and recently they have aimed to set up space to create a performative situation which forces the viewer to make a decision - a decision which will have implications affecting their experience of the piece and the consequences of participating - or not - in what's been constructed. Either way, this decision becomes the work. These works extend and challenge the closed system of their collaborative relationship.

They are now keen to devise situations beyond their complete control, inviting groups to take part in potential performances where: Each subject is a participant. Each viewer is a subject. Each subject is a viewer.