Hatch: Across

Hatch: Across
The Malt Cross and various venues
St. James’s Street, Nottingham
Tuesday 1 June 2010
7.30pm until late
Free

Hatch crossed over into St. James’s Street, Nottingham for a night of performance and live art antics. Hatch invited 20 artists and companies working outside or at the edge of their discipline, or who maybe involved in collaboration with artists from other fields, to show their work across the whole of the street. Venues ranged from The Malt Cross to more unusual venues for live art such as a sports bar, a virtual golf centre and a hotel.

Hatch was proud to present the regional premiere of A Western at the Malt Cross, by internationally acclaimed performance duo Action Hero where the audience help to reenact a Western using cowboy hats and ketchup. Save Me by another Bristol-based company Search Party took place across St. James’s street as two performers try to communicate using bright searchlights.

Regional artists were represented by emerging Nottingham-based company, Gramophones, supported by Theatre Writing Partnership, who performed at The Chameleon Café. Hatch was delighted to introduce Medium Rare – a group of first year Fine Art students from Nottingham Trent University, mentored by Hatch, who will present a unique and intimate encounter at the Park Plaza. Cecille Grey and Venom and the Terrortones provided the live music at The Malt Cross.

As a curtain raiser, Hatch presented Metro-Boulot-Dodo’s Whispers from a Rickshaw at Nottingham Contemporary during the day before it moved to the Malt Cross. Whispers from a Rickshaw is an Igniting Ambition project.

Artists:

Action Hero
Adam Goodge
Andy Dobb
Cecille Grey
Caustic Widows
Gareth Taylor
Girls Can’t DJ
Gramophones
Hypnotique & John Callaghan
Kathryn Cooper and Ollie Smith
Kylie Benjamin
Liam Herne
Luke Barnes
Medium Rare
Metro-Boulot-Dodo
Ruth Scott
Search Party
Selina Mosinski
Venom and the Terrortones
Vonnegut’s Girls

Hatch: Across was supported by Nottingham Trent University, Nottingham Contemporary, Lakeside Arts Centre, The Malt Cross and the Park Plaza. Thanks to all participating artists and venues, Nottingham City Council, Random Object, Ben Mawson-Harris and our volunteers from New College Nottingham and the University of Chester.

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