Selina Thompson and Bobby Baker will prepare dishes live from recipes based on personal stories in a Ready, Steady, Cook style set up, hosted by Invisible Flock, with Terry O’Connor as master of ceremonies, in an evening of eating and sharing.

Selina and Bobby have been invited to prepare meals that they feel represents a story from their lives - it might be to do with their artistic practice or something else entirely. Invisible Flock will help cook these dishes live while Terry leads a discussion about autobiographical practice.

The event intends to open up a dialogue around how much of ourselves we put into our practice, when this tips the work/life balance and around care for ourselves in the industry. 

The evening will result in a meal shared with the audience from the prepared dishes. 

Selina Thompson is an artist and performer based in Leeds. Her work is urgent, playful and intimate, focused on the politics of identity, and how this defines our bodies, lives and environments. She has made work for pubs, cafes, hairdressers, toilets, and sometimes even galleries and theatres, including Spill Festival of Performance, The National Theatre Studio, The Birmingham REP, East Street Arts and the West Yorkshire Playhouse.

Bobby Baker is a woman, and an artist. She lives in London. In a career spanning nearly four decades she has, amongst other things, made a life-sized edible version of her family and driven around the streets of London strapped to the back of a truck yelling at passers by through a megaphone to ‘Pull Yourselves Together.’ Bobby Baker is the Artistic Director of Daily Life Ltd, an arts and mental health charity based in Stratford. Daily Life Ltd creates powerful art that changes the way people think about mental health. 

Terry O'Connor is one of the six founding members of Forced Entertainment and has also established an independent body of performance work as a performer and theatre maker. Performing with artists including Dogs in Honey (UK), Jerome Bel (Fr), Richard Maxwell and the New York City Players (USA), Tim Crouch (UK) and Meg Stuart and Damaged Goods (Be).
 

Invisible Flock is an interactive arts organisation based in Leeds; Ben Eaton, Victoria Pratt and Richard Warburton. Together they have created new work and projects for major art buildings, galleries, festivals and venues on a national and international scale, including most recently the V&A, MIMA, The Tbilisi International Festival, L’Entorse Lille, Vooruit Ghent and The Lagos Theatre Festival.

This event is part of START, an Artist Led Development Programme by Invisible Flock and Compass live Art. Start Live Art is a professional development programme led by Invisible Flock commissioned by Compass Live Art exploring networks of support. Born from a belief that working in our industry can be an equally rewarding and punishing experience and we can all only be as good as we treat each other.

Compass Live Art works to support Live Art practice and infrastructure all over the North of England through commissioning, co-producing, networking and professional development activities for artists. Read More

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The School of English Theatre Workshop

4a Shearwood Road

Sheffield 

S10 2TD