Saturday 12 March 2011
Space 109 Walmgate, York
19:30 - 22:00 (Performances start at 20:00)

In March 2011, Compass and O U I Performance presented O U I #3, an evening of contemporary performance. Founded by Victoria Gray and Nathan Walker in February 2010, O U I Performance curate an ongoing series of performance events in the city of York, presenting new work by emerging and established artists in the field of performance.

See images of the event on Compass' image archive on Flickr

O U I #3 presented two artistic collaborations whose work explores different approaches to live art:

Ewa Rybska & Wladyslaw Kazmierczak, an artist-duo originally from Poland, have been presenting performances internationally since 1997. Their work often explores ironic and nihilistic attitudes towards fashionable values and artificial icons in art and culture. They have produced a number of political performances based on aspects of freedom, paradoxically also in democratic countries, focused on difficult and traumatic themes; political hypocrisy, issues of oppression, freedom and elimination of the origins of cultures by the process of globalisation. Rybska & Kazmierczak have performed over 150 performances in Slovakia, Italy, Germany, Czech Republic, Belarus, Ireland, Slovenia, Mexico, Indonesia, Canada, Korea, France, USA, Israel, Finland, Estonia, Spain, Great Britain, Sweden, China and Poland, and currently live and work in the UK.

York-based artists Jules Dorey Richmond & David Richmond have been making live art together for 15 years, bringing together their respective disciplines of visual art and theatre. They create experimental and innovative works, and since 1996 have been engaged in a Theatre of Witness series of collaborative works with World War Two veterans, survivors and witnesses in various communities throughout Britain. This process is ongoing and led them on a secular pilgrimage to Auschwitz. They are both lecturers in Theatre within the Faculty of Arts at York St John University.