WORDS FOR THE LIVING, 2021
Live Performance | Beth Derbyshire | WERK
Words for the Living is a live performance in which an individual speaker, communicates a series of words and phrases through a megaphone in public space. The words are commemorative excerpts by loved ones for so many of the key workers who have tragically passed away from Covid 19. The poignant and celebratory recital of words is a living memorial, describing the qualities of these incredible people who lost their lives whilst saving others and is intended to pay homage to loss, whilst inspiring the living through their bravery. The performance will be filmed and presented in the digital space of Into the Parade.
Into the Parade is an online web encounter and live project that explores how arts organisation and practitioners across the Midlands are engaging civically. The digital ‘Civic Centre’ is both tangible and metaphorical concept to explore the role of cultural practice in a civic context. Into the Parade is a cultural intervention that undertakes projects that have online and real-world anchors points and has been initiated by Beth Derbyshire and developed with students from the MA Arts and Project Management course at Birmingham City University.
BETH DERBYSHIRE
RARE EARTH ONE, 2026
The concrete panels that make up Rare Earth One bear imagery that brings together a Scottish highland road, mineral formations, soviet satellite Molniya flying through lichen formations, asteroid deflecting spacecraft Dart, electricity and communications towers to Split Rock of Clachtoll, a well known feature of the Scottish Assynt coast.
Rare Earth One is part of Transmissions is a new series of work that explores connections between ancient rock formations, the architecture of electricity in our landscape, and space exploration and communications.