Anna Weatherston

#PUSHBACKBRIGHTON is Brighton and Hove Community Land Trust’s city-wide street campaign to get our city talking about its future. Inspired by the award-winning documentary film, PUSH, which follows Leilani Farha, the UN’s special rapporteur on adequate housing, as she travels the world investigating why ordinary people can’t afford to live in cities anymore. We learnt about global financer Blackstone buying up affordable housing around the world and realised that they already own some of the most unaffordable student housing in Brighton after buying iQ student housing firm in the UK’s largest ever private property deal recently.

With artists and independent businesses making up so much of our city, having the 2nd highest house prices in the UK, rents averaging 68% of tenants wages...

THERE HAS TO BE A BETTER WAY!!

I have been creating subversive property signs along with Graphic Designer Erica Smith and installing them around the city.

If you would like to host a sign - sign up here!

We are in the Brighton Fringe, Yes! It is on!

Complete with a downloadable walking map!

We want to get more people talking about this and about what can be done. How do we stop being pushed out of cities?

How can you PUSHBACK?

For more information and further links

See https://bhclt.org.uk/pushbackbrighton/

PERFORMER & PUPPETEER & CROWD SAFTEY

Royal de Luxe, the world’s leading street theatre company, returned to its second home for an unforgettable show from Thursday 4 to Sunday 7 October 2018 which saw 1.3 million people see Giants roam the streets of Liverpool and New Brighton.

giantspectacular.com

COLLABORATOR, CONSTRUCTOR, CLOWN & FIRE GARDNER

I first worked with Carabosse in St. Anne’s Wells Gardens in 2011 while creating Jardin de Feu for Brighton Festival. Consequently I was invited to join the company creating installations in Durham Cathedral and St. Columb’s Park Derry -Londonderry for Artichoke’s Lumiere Festival, Stonehenge for The Olympic Festival, Milton Keynes & Stockton-on-Tees International Festivals, for Bournemouth Arts by the Sea Festival and at The Tate Modern as part of London’s Burning, a Festival of Arts and Ideas.

Volunteer Supervisor / Production Crew

An artistic installation at the Tower of London in November 2018, to commemorate the centenary of the end of the First World War.

Beyond the Deepening Shadow

CO-COMMISSIONED TO CREATE A SCENE SPECIFIC TO BRIGHTON FOR FIGURES LIBRES BRIGHTON FESTIVAL 2014. LIVE VIDEO OPERATOR AT PREMIÈRE OF FOOL FOR VILLERUBANNE FESTIVAL, FRANCE.

Who are we, who are you, who am I ?

Figures Libres starts off with these words. An eternal and existential wondering that doesn’t call for any answers but that will pursue every one of us, bringing us back to the complex notion of identity. How can we define ourselves ? What makes us who we are? With a succession of overlapping scenes throughout a fragmented procession Figures Libres approaches the notion of identity in its polysemous dimension. 
KXKM creations are born from documentary material including videos, sounds, archives, words and atmospheres that we either collect or capture ourselves. The work is at the intersection of many art forms, combining them depending on the projects and the context in which they are used. All performances take place outdoor in the public space. The streets, the squares and the buildings create a unique atmosphere for each and every performance.

FIGURES LIBRES

ARTISTIC DIRECTOR & PERFORMER

A site specific promenade performance commissioned by Pegasus Theatre incorporating the theme of transformation, mythology of Pegasus, and social archeology using unique film installations (Jerome Aubrun & Marchello Valence, KXKM), inventive costumes (Holly Murray), sound (Thor Macintyre-Burnie, SwarmSonics, & Propel, KXKM), and sculpture.

260 copper acorns were cast by hand and given to each audience member as part of the show in celebration of newly re-developed copper clad theatre. With special thanks to Kevin Hastiere, Neil Sephton, Steve P, Vanessa Freeman, Harriet Rolf, Stacey Manser-Knight, and all who lent their hands to hope.

Performers; Poppy Kay, Lucy Williams, Monica Crowe, Tula Howarth, Anna Weatherston.

Forever with you Jerome

ALLYOURS

ARTIST & COLLABORATOR

Celebrating LOVE by creating installations running through out the building & grounds of Chateaux Grignan & Adhemar Castle, South France.

Madame de Savigne’s was a French aristocrat, remembered for her letter-writing. Most of her letters, celebrated for their wit and vividness, were addressed to her daughter. She is revered in France as one of the great icons of French 17th century literature. I was allocated her bedroom.

ARTIST - COLLABORATOR - PERFORMER

ENCOURS RESIDENCY WITH COLLECTIF 170CM AT KOMPLEX KAPHANARUM WORKSHOP, VILLEURBANNE, FRANCE.

LIVE CYANOTYPE PRINTING, EXPERIMENTAL PROJECTION, EXPERIMENTAL IMAGE MAKING TECHNIQUES DEVELOPED FOR A SITE SPECIFIC PERFORMATIVE INSTALLATION IN LOCAL DISUSED RESTAURANT ‘FER A CHEVAL’ NEXT TO A HORSE RACING TRACK.

BEACHJAM a film by Anna Weatherston and Tula Parker

A sample-heavy funk track provides the revving and screeching sound effects for a toy car as it is ‘driven’ along a stretch of sea wall, from the ‘metropolis’ of a snow-shaker past a ‘Weekend’ tail-back of traffic before arriving, in the wheel tracks of Thelma and Louise, at the breaking surf.

A Singleshot competition winner launching at Tate Britain and shown at various galleries and cinemas, nationally an internationally including Curzon Cinemas, Encounters short film festival Bristol, Reading Music Festival, IS100 Iceland, White Nights Brighton. Most recently shown as part of Experimental Motion at Brighton & Hove Royal Pavilion Museum celebrating 200 years of experimental film makers.

SINGLESHOT TATE BRITIAN

EXPERIMENTAL MOTION

SOCIAL ARCHEOLOGIST & RESEARCHER BRIGHTON FESTIVAL

Collecting documentary material including videos, sounds, archives, words and atmospheres capturing on film the search for our local hero who will have worked at the little known Isetta Bubble Car Factory in Brighton’s New England Quarter many years ago. Intersecting many art forms, combining them together to tell a storey. The performance took place behind Brighton Station where the old factory would have been. A dedicated team of technicians and engineers work together to create specific tools to serve the artistic vision producing vivid, historical and unique installations that develop live as the storey unfolds.

PERFORMER DIVISER

A painterly procession of automobiles & live Rock n Roll converting in colour as they go before being strung up to dry.

DROLES D’OISEAU

STAGEMANAGER

Commencing at the Battersea Power Station moving north throughout the night culminating in a finale at the Hayward Gallery. 

This large-scale participatory performance, devised specifically for Art Night, takes its inspiration from public ceremonies, civil and religious rituals, working class gatherings, mass events and street musicals. Merging forms of protest, dance, music, theatre and sporting activity within a temporal framework of celebration, Senatore’s work highlights the emancipatory power of communal creative processes. This is especially relevant in the context of new urban developments and the impact of collective formations on the social history of places and communities.

ART NIGHT LONDON

PERFORMER & DEVISER

Brighton Festival, Newhaven Cormerant & Showzam Festival, Blackpool

One of Europes most talked about street shows. A tribe of bluemen, 100 barrels, a fire breathing dog, pyrotechnics & live punk rock. Whats not to love.

BIVOUAC BRIGHTON