Estelle Woolley

From The Deep

(Rusted shopping trolley, clay, fish-fingers, mirror, nylon thread, fishing hook, 2011)

Woolley playfully uses found, sculpted, and sourced materials here which aim to construct a narrative questioning and reflecting aspects of the history of the canal and the sea, the development of consumerism, and the actions of mankind. 

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Summertime
 

(Gershwin arr. Estelle Woolley) Interactive performance

9.30pm 

(Clarinet, post it notes, music notes, participants, 2009-2011)

Musical notes taken from Gershwin’s Summertime are individually cut out from a score and glued onto post it notes. These are given to the participants, acting as human music stands. Asked to stick the notes to their foreheads (which will in turn fall off), the notes are read and played in this constantly changing sequence by the performer (Woolley). The melody is disjointed and unpredictable, yet may have hints of the familiar. The music stops when the last note falls to the floor.