Marianna Simnett: Birds Scream at the Top of Their Lungs in Horrified Hellish Rage Every Morning at Daybreak to Warn Us All of the Truth, but Sadly We Don't Speak Bird
27 February 2020
6.30–8pm
Join artist Marianna Simnett in conversation with a crow. Through bird screams and flute refrains, they tell stories of silence, listening, muteness, queerness, and love. This is an adapted version of Simnett’s performance Birds Scream … , which she first presented at EAT/Engadin Art Talks on 25 January 2020, in Zuoz. The title is a quote from the late Kurt Cobain.
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Marianna Simnett completed her MA at Slade School of Art in 2013. Her films, drawings, and sculptures challenge the way bodies are perceived and imagined. In 2014, she won the Jerwood/FVU Award, and, in 2017, was shortlisted for the Jarman Award. She had solo shows at Kunsthalle Zürich, Copenhagen Contemporary, FACT Liverpool, and Haarlem’s Frans Hals Museum in 2019; New York’s New Museum, Frankfurt’s Museum für Moderne Kunst, and London’s Zabludowicz Collection in 2018; and London’s Matt’s Gallery and Seventeen in 2017.
