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Ten years of MAYK celebrated in new video
“When we set up MAYK we didn’t start with a plan really, we started with a desire for us to work with artists in the way we currently work with artists. It felt like a thing to do in that moment.”
MAYK co-founder Matthew Austin is speaking at the start of a video made to mark ten years of one of Bristol’s most brilliant artistic organisations.
MAYK’s major project is the biennial festival Mayfest, Bristol’s international festival of contemporary theatre, returning in 2022, which over its existence has created some of the most memorable shows the city has ever seen.
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“It sort of was about curiosity,” adds MAYK’s other co-founder, Kate Yedigaroff.
“And I think that there was a sort of unsaid thing between us that we’ll do this until the curiosity goes, so what happens if we take this risk?”
Made by Dan Canham with film footage by Timothy X Atack, Paul Blakemore, Dan Canham, Phoebe Holman, Max McClure, Jack Offord and Jon Stephenson, the work featured in the video gives just a fleeting glimpse of ten years of MAYK:
- Sanctum – Theaster Gates/ Situations
- Undersong – Verity Standen Projects
- 30 Cecil Street – Dan Canham
- Dark Land Light House – Sleepdogs
- The Secret Slowness of Movement – Laura Dannequin
- A Crash Course in Cloudspotting.- Raquel Meseguer Zafe
- A Spark and a Beating Heart – Firebird Theatre
- Save Me – Search Party
- The Bullet and the Bass Trombone – Sleepdogs
- Of Riders and Running Horses – Still House
- A Folded Path – circumstance
- The Nature of Why – Paraorchestra
- Contact Gonzo
- Kitchen Alba – Jo Bannon
- Now is the Time to Say Nothing – Caroline Williams
- We are Lightning! – Sam Halmarack and JOF (Joseph O’ Farrell)
- Session – Still House
- Symphony – Verity Standen
- Ours Was The Fen Country – Still House
Music is an excerpt from a live performance of Undersong by Verity Standen at Barton Hill Settlement during Mayfest 2018 and Water Sound by Typesun.
“With huge thanks to all of the artists, teams, supporters and funders with whom we’ve collaborated,” say Kate and Matthew.
“Here’s to the future.”
Main photo: Save Me by Search Party at Mayfest
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