Martin Creed, ‘Words and Music’, The Common Guild at the New Athenaeum, 2007. Photo: Jethro Collins.
A unique live performance by Martin Creed, ‘Words and Music’ is somewhere between a contemporary take on music hall variety show and an artist’s talk, involving song, dance, image, and words and music.
Martin Creed’s performances stem from the same desire ‘to communicate somehow’ that fuels the installations, text works and drawings for which he is well known.
Involving the artist, his band, a string quartet and two dancers, ‘Words and Music’ sets up an extra-ordinary encounter between artist and audience, working with and in a traditional theatre environment. With all the wit, simplicity and absurdity you would expect, ‘Words and Music’ takes shape in situ, to be a truly unique event.
Martin Creed, ‘Words and Music’, The Common Guild at the New Athenaeum, 2007. Photo: Jethro Collins.
Martin Creed (born 1968) is a British artist and musician. He won the Turner Prize in 2001 for Work No. 227: The lights going on and off. Creed lives and works in London.
Event Details
Words and Music was performed for one night only at the New Athenaeum, Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama, now the The Royal Conservatoire of Scotland.
