Futility and endurance are entwined in a story of a durational performance artist whose act of fasting is going out of fashion.
Daria Martin’s most ambitious short film to date, A Hunger Artist is based upon Franz Kafka’s last short story edited from his death-bed in 1924. Futility and endurance are entwined in a story of a durational performance artist whose act of fasting is going out of fashion.
Occupying the main screen in Sheffield’s historic Abbeydale Picture House, a ‘picture palace’ built in the 1920s to present cine-variety theatre before the ‘talkies’ became popular, Martin’s film attends to resistance and human need. A landmark in the life of the Picture House, this will be the first use of the ornate balcony since its heyday in the early 20th century.
Read a review of the production on Corridor 8.
Weekly Screening Times
Booking for each screening time is essential – maximum capacity 20 for each screening.
Thursdays: 5 – 8pm. Screenings at 5pm, 6pm and 7pm
Fridays (from 14 April) – Sundays: 12 – 3pm. Screenings at 12pm, 1pm and 2pm
*Please note there will be no screening on Thursday 26 April.
Daria Martin is an American artist-filmmaker working in London and Professor of Art at Oxford University. Solo exhibitions include Austrialian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne; Tate Britain, London; New Museum, New York; Kunsthalle Zurich, and Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam. Group exhibitions include 14th Istanbul Biennial, Shanghai Biennial, Manifesta, Pompidou, Paris, Generali Foundation, Vienna, and Museum of Modern Art, Sao Paulo. Her work is currently on view in the collection display at Tate Modern, London.
Daria Martin in represented by Maureen Paley, London.
www.dariamartin.com
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Daria Martin is an American artist-filmmaker working in London and Professor of Art at Oxford University. Solo exhibitions include Austrialian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne; Tate Britain, London; New Museum, New York; Kunsthalle Zurich, and Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam. Group exhibitions include 14th Istanbul Biennial, Shanghai Biennial, Manifesta, Pompidou, Paris, Generali Foundation, Vienna, and Museum of Modern Art, Sao Paulo. Her work is currently on view in the collection display at Tate Modern, London.
Daria Martin in represented by Maureen Paley, London.