theatre interior – Alison J Carr

2019 Bubikopf & Theatre photos

Bubikopf is an art history lecture on gender that morphs. An examination of women in the modernity of the Weimar Republic with new opportunities to be independent in the city, to go to art school, perform in cabarets. Weaving together gendered forms of feminine visibility this piece spotlights and speculates women’s entertaining, creative and Avant Garde work.

*Ascending A Staircase, Library Theatre, Sheffield, 1934,* 2019
Giclee print on white cotton rag paper, edition of 5, 84 cm x 84 cm
Edition of 15, 34 cm x 34 cm

*Ascending A Staircase, City Varities, Leeds, 1865,* 2019
Giclee print on white cotton rag paper, edition of 5, 84 cm x 84 cm
Edition of 15, 34 cm x 34 cm

*Ascending A Staircase, North Pier Theatre, Blackpool,1863,* 2019
Giclee print on white cotton rag paper, edition of 5, 84 cm x 84 cm
Edition of 15, 34 cm x 34 cm

*Ascending A Staircase, Stockport Plaza, Stockport, 1932,* 2019
Giclee print on white cotton rag paper, edition of 5, 84 cm x 84 cm
Edition of 15, 34 cm x 34 cm

*Ascending A Staircase, Victoria Theatre, Halifax, 1901,* 2019
Giclee print on white cotton rag paper, edition of 5, 84 cm x 84 cm
Edition of 15, 34 cm x 34 cm

*Ascending A Staircase, Pendle Hippodrome, Pendle, 1914*, 2019
Giclee print on white cotton rag paper, edition of 5, 84 cm x 84 cm
Edition of 15, 34 cm x 34 cm

*Ascending A Staircase, Lyceum, Sheffield, 1897*, 2019
Giclee print on white cotton rag paper, edition of 5, 84 cm x 84 cm
Edition of 15, 34 cm x 34 cm

*Ascending A Staircase, Pomegranate, Chesterfield, 1879*, 2019
Giclee print on white cotton rag paper, edition of 5, 84 cm x 84 cm
Edition of 15, 34 cm x 34 cm

*Ascending A Staircase, Darlington Hippodrome, Darlington, 1907*, 2019
Giclee print on white cotton rag paper, edition of 5, 84 cm x 84 cm
Edition of 15, 34 cm x 34 cm

*Ascending A Staircase, Penistone Paramount, Penistone, 1914*, 2019
Giclee print on white cotton rag paper, edition of 5, 84 cm x 84 cm
Edition of 15, 34 cm x 34 cm

Space, Place, Action at Market Gallery/Temporary Contemporary, Huddersfield

Apr 052018

Left to right: *Manifesto*, 2017, *Ascending A Staircase, Library Theatre, Sheffield*, 2018, *Ascending A Staircase, City Varieties*, Leeds

Rowan Bailey put together the first show at the Market Gallery as part of the Temporary Contemporary collaboration between the University of Huddersfield and Kirklees Council and the Huddersfield covered market. Space, Place Action brought together the research staff at the university. I used the opportunity to test out my new series of theatre interior photographs, Ascending A Staircase.

New Work

Dec 172010

Theatre Interiors with Text, 2010
S1 Artspace

I tested out some new, large work on the walls of the old S1 Artspace before we moved. My supervisors and I discussed the work and I stepped in and showed the work to my students in my crit group when the student showing texted me concussed in hospital. The work is an ongoing pairing of theatre interior and text bios. The bios are sourced from 1930s cigarette cards or online web presences. The work represents the public viewing spaces of the showgirl and theorists connected to my research.