10/06/2010

The Lost Swimming Pool: A Site-Specific Installation and Performance

















The Lost Swimming Pool

In part an homage to Esther Williams who would have represented the US as a swimmer in the 1940 Summer Games had they not been cancelled, and an examination of women’s physical education at the moments of the founding of Bedford and Royal Holloway Colleges. This site-specific installation and performances will involve translations of archive material into writerly, filmic and choreographic practices.

Project conceived and directed by Redell Olsen, Royal Holloway, University of London in collaboration with Libby Worth, Royal Holloway, University of London; Gillian Wylde, Dartington College of Art; Ruth Livesey, Royal Holloway, University of London.

The Lost Swimming Pool is part of the Creative Campus Initiative (CCI)
http://www.rhul.ac.uk/cultural-olympiad/

This exhibition is a celebration of the dynamic programme of cultural events, performance and artworks created in response to the 2012 Olympics and Paralympics and features new commissions from students, practising artists, and the local community engaged in the CCI programme.

(Image of 'The Lost Swimming Pool' courtesy Paul Smith.)