Jo Bannon: Sleight of Hand

Integrating audio description, tactile design, choreography and an immersive ASMR soundscape, the installation explores what we can discover if we loosen our grip on the known visual world and let our senses wander.

As always, Jo Bannon’s work is guided by her offbeat humour and her ongoing fascination with objects, visual perception and how strange the ordinary world really is.

Bannon is an artist working in performance, choreography and film. Her practice is concerned with how our specific bodies, identities and sensory perceptions impact how we experience the world around us, and how this sensory experience can or cannot be conveyed.

Her work is informed by her identity as a disabled woman with albinism and attempts to unpick the ways we look, hear and sense our immediate environment in order to rethink or make unfamiliar these intrinsic human behaviours.

Credits
Julie Rose Bower: sound design
Katherina Radeva: set and costume design
Rositza Radeva Production: set and costume making
Josh Krysiak: management
Laura Dannequin: audio description
Kit Hall & Hannah Sullivan: hosts and performers
Gemma Paintin: dramaturgy
MAYK: producer

Developed in collaboration with Augusto Corrieri and Sindri Runudde

Sleight of Hand is an Unlimited UK Partner Award 2023 commission with Wellcome Collection made possible thanks to funding from Arts Council England.

Need to know

Age guidance

For ages 14+

Event information

This show is participatory and requires audiences to take part in the work, touching items and using your senses.

Please arrive on time. Each show starts at the allocated time. This is a limited capacity performance, so if you can’t make it, please cancel in advance to allow others the opportunities to take part.

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Dates, times and prices

Dates & times

07 Sep & 08 Sep 2024

Standard entry

from £12.00*

* Excludes £3.50 booking fee.

Book as early as you can to ensure the best choice of tickets. Ticket prices may be adjusted without notice to reflect demand.

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Access

This participatory installation is designed for both sighted and non-sighted audiences and has Integrated Audio Description, Sighted Guiding, a Touch Tour and some captions.

Not all elements are fully accessible to Deaf/Hearing Impaired audiences due to some of the work being amplified sound via speakers and headphones.

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