Kayfabe Juncture

Wrestling Performance Installation

Arnolfini, Bristol

23rd of July 2010 at 8pm

Collaboratively devised with local professional wrestlers Nick Woolcock, Rob Clark, Alex Hagues, Mark Rowell and Dave Youell; Kayfabe Juncture is a three part show which combines live performance, including pro-style wrestling and music, video and handmade costumes to re-stage as well as unravel the construction of masculine archetypes within contemporary British culture.

Drawing it’s influences from exisiting historical matches, the performance examines the growing resurgence of interest into embodied experience, group participation, and pseudo sports. However, Kayfabe Juncture is also a playful nod to the world of Professional Wrestling with it's heroes, villains and gimmicks.