Tue 16 Feb  8.30pm  Maw 16 Chwef

This fascinating and innovative project features 13 short-films by 13 different filmmakers: Zoë Brown, Bruce + Marshall, Jem Finer, Judith Goddard, Dryden Goodwin, Andrew Kötting, Trine Lise Nedreaas, Saskia Olde Wolbers, Uriel Orlow, Tom Paine, Sarah Pucill, Tal Sterngast and Gary Stevens.

Each film is a reconfiguration of a once-live work from the last 12 years of Farquhar’s performance practice. In each case, Farquhar and the respective ‘shooter’ chose which work was to be revisited, and in what manner. Farquhar then performed for the camera, handing all directorial and editorial control to the filmmaker. The result is an inspired and continually surprising series of short films, wildly disparate in tone and form.

Part conceptual artwork, part retrospective and part group show, 12 Shooters sheds a bright light on the nature of collaboration. Marcia Farquhar is an extraordinary performer and artist whose conceptual works find a precarious and enchanting balance between the prescribed and the unpredictable. Her works have been staged and exhibited internationally in museums and galleries as well as in lecture theatres, kitchen showrooms, pubs, parks and leisure centres. She makes subversive use of popular cultural forms such as TV cookery, poppsychology, the Punch & Judy show, the fashion catwalk and the guided tour. Several of these works are revisited here in 12 Shooters, which visits Chapter as part of a series of screenings across the UK.

£5

Supported by Arts Council England