FINE BONE CHINA
We’ve found it. Once and for all we have caught it: the ingredients for the most perfect teatime moment. We want to present it to you, to re-construct if for you exactly, precisely and then hold onto it, maintain it. We want to rest in a limbo of loveliness where there are no raised voices and we are cocooned in a blanket of sugar. We’ve got it all worked out. Timed to perfection. Expect high standards: No stray hairs or words. Everything will be put in its place. We are waiting for you with baited breath. Prepare to be dazzled by the nigh on impossible act of perfection that will be conjured before your very eyes.
We started working together as "Lucy and Martha" in March 2009 after meeting in Bristol at Curious’ Autobiology workshop. We enjoyed working together and found an interesting dynamic in our opposing performance qualities. During the next 12 months we started to explore ways to work together, initially developing ideas we had touched upon in the making of two short pieces during the workshop: themes of holding it together and working with a strictness of form. We wanted to make a piece that was just one thing, and avoided feeling fragmented. After a period of open exploration we started solifying our ideas into the piece that is Fine Bone China - developing it through Residence’s Tiny Ideas event and showing it repeatedly as an informal work in progress.
In April 2010 we travelled to Frankfurt and spent 3 weeks in residency as part of Plateaux Festival. There we finished the piece with the support of Nicola Unger who worked with us as an outside eye. More information about the making of Fine Bone China can be found at fine-bonechina.blogspot.com
About Martha
Martha King is a performer and live artist during the making of Fine Bone China she was also working on her PHD at Exeter University researching the use of projections in performance. She has made solo dance and live installation works as well as worked in collaboration with Pete Brooks and the Athens school of fine art.
