Images from Homebase Residency Final Show 6th, 7th, 8th July

Sheepwoman's mask and costume.

Sheepwoman watching over my bed.

Props from Sheepwoman's film 

Film running on a loop in Sheepwoman's studio

Audience viewing Sheepwoman's film, with two felt sheep on the wall behind.

A small sheep watches over three props from the film.

The images above show the final installation I made at Homebase Lab Berlin, after living and working with 18 other international artists for three months.  Sheepwoman's new film currently titled "There is a Monster in the Attic" made in collaboration with Joao Vilnei and Aixa Sacco, and featuring Elena Dhal, Rafael Machado, Jimmy Treverton, James Budd Dees and Adrian Brun was shown on a television on a loop as part of an installation comprising of Sheepwoman's mask and costume and the props from the film.  

Partying in the attic.

Plants in the greenhouse tended by Philippa Jeffery and Diego Zavala during the three month residency.

Photographs taken by Christoph Neumann.

New Collaboration in Progress

Sheepwoman is dancing in her pyjamas on the set of her new film.   Written, produced and directed in collaboration with Aixa Sacco and Joao Vilnei here at Homebase Residency, Berlin.

Watch this space to hear more about this brand new, collaboration.

Rot Beige

This photograph taken by Christoph Neumann documents a rehearsal for "Seven" a new piece in development whilst here at Homebase Residency, Berlin. 

"Seven" was made in collaboration with Joseph Patricio in response to an invitation to make a performative work in the basement of the old Engelhardt brewery on Thulestrasse in Pankow.  The performance was shown during the month of performance art in Berlin.

 

The work  attempts to take the audience of one on a journey across a threshold and into the world of the collective unconscious.  

Selected by a guide in a sheep mask, seven people one at a time, are led through a dark tunnel, sweeping the way with a broom, sheepman crosses a darkened room leading to a smaller inner sanctum.    

A woman seated on a white chair at a white table holds a black book in her hand and invites her guest to be seated.  A candle lit encounter takes place, the sharing of stories perhaps real, perhaps imagined.  Stories of life and death are shared:  a woman who had been living with a dead body in her house for 21 years.  The discovery of a secret room and a very thin man with the key.   A visit to Einstein's laboratory which causes the body to break down into sub-atomic particles.  The ability to spin straw into gold,  the size and weight of the soul, and the sheep cafe were amongst the stories, shared and encountered in the dark basement.