with Emily Wardill

“Formally it is a montage of various kinds of public address – the lecture, the interview, reading, acting, moving – made into a highly stylised, illustrated and performed exchange delivered by Wardill and White. It circulates around such ideas, for instance, as the influence of Douglas Sirk on Fassbinder, the use of Melodrama within contemporary Republican discourse in the United States, its relationship to Minimalism and postmodern dance, Melodrama and Slapstick generally, living, speaking plants and Stained Glass imagery. Original text is combined with extracts from the work of George Lakoff, Yvonne Rainer, Walt Whitman, Robert Wilson and others. Acid Cut Flowers attempts to simultaneously discuss and embody those things of which it speaks. It is an enactment and a presentation.” - Emily Wardill & Ian White

Download PDF of script for Acid Cut Flowers

(Booklet design by Eleanor Vonne Brown)

First performance: 2007, ICA Cinema, London

Subsequently:

30 September 2008, Stadtkino Basel (in collaboration with Kunsthalle Basel)