I’ve been thinking about that all-inclusive horse riding holiday with Darby, jodhpurs and getting more people involved, things in miniature form, cowboys wearing leggings, my inability to whistle a tune and some video footage.
‘Hunt & Darton’ is a Live Art collaboration between Jenny Hunt and Holly Darton. Eight years after meeting at Central Saint Martins and based on the friendship since, they have been collaborating for the past 3 years approaching performance from a Fine Art background.
Our work comes out of a shared interest in what it means to be human, embracing all that is embarrassing and revealing the daily frustrations there to be discussed but never resolved. Touching the surface of all that’s meant to matter to us, we opt for the deadpan and absurd.
We have created several performances together including ‘Love is Like the Airport/The Airport is Like Love’, ‘Getting a Grip’ and ‘Desperately Seeking Anything’ and have built up a kind of jukebox methodology, picking and choosing elements of the ideas explored in our practice and piecing them together in a range of combinations culminating in the full length performance ‘Everybody Moving On’ first shown at The Junction and then in various forms at venues and platforms such as NRLA, Arnolfini, Colchester Arts Centre, Norwich Arts Centre, The Basement, Chisenhale Dance space, Café Gallery Project and The Mercury theatre.
‘Callosa, Alicante, Spain’ 28 x 21cm Courier 150 piece jigsaw puzzle (found object)
