Turner Contemporary are looking for volunteers to get involved in a performance by contemporary artist Bronwen Buckeridge at the Turner Contemporary in Margate this Sunday (16 September).

The performance doesn’t require any special skills and involves performing some simple actions for about half an hour at 1pm and attending a briefing at 10am on the day. 

The work is called Cast and was originally performed at Peckham library for Hmmn 12. This a new version adapted for the architecture of the Turner Contemporary and the landscape around the gallery. During the performance the artist will be stationed on the balcony inside the gallery and will make a telephone call to a group of ravens and their keeper, which she will ask to describe the movements of the birds around him. These movements will be translated into a series of signals which in turn will trigger certain actions from volunteers stationed in the building and outside on the seafront. The idea is that the ravens take control of our environment for the period of the telephone call and are ‘cast’ onto the surrounding landscape. It might be quite slow moving or it may become quite chaotic, that all depends on the birds!

Bronwen’s performance is part of PEST, a day of performances and screenings at the Turner Contemporary exploring our co-habitation with other species, in particular those seen as pests or strays, relegated to the edges of human society. More information on the day is available here.

If you are interested and would like to find out more, please email Rose Thompson at r.thompson-414@kent.ac.uk.