Angus H Braithwaite
Failures of Aviation

Sea Cadets Hall

13:00-14:00 Sunday 27 June

Refining the absurd, artist Angus H Braithwaite’s practice frequently transforms the performing body into a ludicrous actor. This new work, Failures of Aviation, takes the form of a performance-lecture guided by physical props that are consumed by the work to eventually become its memorial remnants. Braithwaite will expound upon a history of failed aviation – from burning blimps and failed journeys to tragic calamities. Animating his factual ingredients with reconstruction, farcical stagecraft and dry humour, the performance is a clash of forms and also parody of forms. ‘Sending up’ the traditional lecture and, with it, genres of public entertainment such as slapstick, mime and ritual folk performance, he rolls into this work a mixture of instructive and destructive elements.

Angus M. Braithwaite works with performance and film and he frequently collaborates with artist Corinne Mynatt. He has shown widely in London and the UK. Between 2006 and 2009 he took part in the Deviant Art Festival, a project organised by London-based collaborative that took place in Trollhattan, Sweden. He has also shown work in exhibitions at The Embassy (Edinburgh), Gasworks (London), and the Globe Gallery (Newcastle).