2020 BURSARY RECIPIENTS
1927 are delighted to announce the artists, collectives and projects that form the recipients of our inaugural 1927 Bursaries for Artists:
Alisa Oleva, Carys Wright, Flawed Mandrake Theatre, Parwaz VR, Tin Can People, and Urielle Klein-Mekongo.
As a homage to our early days and the people who helped us out, every year 1927 will offer small cash bursaries to help England-based artists develop a piece of original, sublime, heart-wrenching, political, or just plain weird performance! Alongside the cash bursary, 1927 offer each recipients mentoring.
1927 bursary recipients 2020:
Alisa Oleva
Alisa Oleva treats the city as her studio and urban life as material, to consider issues of urban choreography and urban archeology, traces and surfaces, borders and inventories, intervals and silences, passages and cracks.
Her projects have manifested as a series of interactive situations, performances, movements scores, personal and intimate encounters, parkour, walk-shops, and audio walks.
Carys Wright
Carys Wright is a writer, performer and illustrator. She is currently developing her new show How To Catch A Bear, a cross-genre solo show using her experiences to take audiences on a journey through trauma into healing, celebrating survival and resilience.
Wright is looking forward to developing animation for the show. Previous work includes Belong (Clean Break at Arcola/Lyric Hammersmith), written while she was part of Clean Break's young artist development programme.
Flawed Mandrake Theatre
Flawed Mandrake Theatre are a new puppetry company holding a mirror up to society. The company explores social issues and events, injustices and conundrums. Puppets tell far more truths than people. They are currently developing a new show, Autopsy.
Parwaz VR
Parwaz is a co-authored, first-person Virtual Reality experience that immerses the viewer into the journey and dreams of Ahmad, who fled from Afghanistan to Europe in 2016 aged just 7.
Parwaz will allow you to fly free through a borderless sky, reimagining the journey through the eyes of Ahmad, in a world made up entirely of his artwork.
Tin Can People
Tin Can People investigate class struggle, fighting, success and failure led by Preston-based performance artists Charlotte Berry & Rob Gregson. Charlotte’s a kickboxer; Rob’s an activist.
Their new work, Smash it Up, will explore past political failings of the masses and act as a training ground for fighting back.
Urielle Klein-Mekongo
Inspired by the true events of London’s Black Power movement, Urielle Klein-Mekongo’s BLACK POWER DESK is a powerful call to arms, using an original score of rap, reggae, soul and R&B.
Originally commissioned by The Old Vic 12 and co-composed with Richard Melkonian. See it at BEAM2020 in March!
Credit: Manuel Harlan Photography
1927’s Bursaries for Artists are open to emerging and peer-artists based in England, who have made work previously with a particular emphasis on artists who are playing with form or have a brilliant story to tell.