UK-based collaborators Kim Coleman and Jenny Hogarth presented Players, a seamless projection of stage-managed and live events filmed at the fair, transforming the exposition into a mise-en-scene featuring unwitting visitors, gallerists and fair workers. Players aimed to heighten our sensual awareness of the staging of the fair; mixing the premeditated and the spontaneous, what is to be scrutinised and what is not, what is appreciated and what is taken for granted.
As the entire fair becomes subject to and of the work, Players effectively changed the experience of viewing from spectacle to participatory event. Players was located next to A14, opposite Hix Oyster Bar and Restaurant.
Kim Coleman (b. 1976) is a Northern Irish artist based in London and Jenny Hogarth (b. 1979) is a Scottish artist based in Edinburgh.
They have been working together since 2003. Recent solo exhibitions and projects include ‘Glare’, S1 Artspace, Sheffield (2009); ‘Act Natural’, Picture This, Bristol (2009) and the Museum of Bath at Work, Bath (2008); ‘Nought to Sixty’ (with the Boyle Family), ICA, London (2008) and ‘Timebank’, Associates, London (2007).
