Metro boulot dodo
Founded in 1997
September 2013 became an associate artist at CURVE in Leicester (theatre)
Produces arts projects. Including
Installations
Performances (outdoor and indoor)
Audio tours
Work combines ‘high production values with innovative and contemporary presentation’
Mixes live performance, original soundtrack and new media
Produces work for variety of audiences and spaces
‘Spring’
Started in 2005 and carries on today
Follows ‘Polly’ aged 8 to 80
Designed to target audiences outside of the theatre
Autumn, Summer and Winter for adult audiences about periods in later life
An ‘outlandish, innocent and interactive garden’ that charters innocence and acceptance, it has been popular with children and young families from 2005 to current day’ (http://www.metro-boulot-dodo.com/spring.html)
Street art instillation (interactive large scale outdoor instillation)
Commissioned by:
National Theatre
Phoenix arts (Leicester cinema)
Leicester Haymarket
Arts Fresco (festival)
NOW Festival
Stockton International Riverside Festival
Finically assisted by:
Arts Council England
Behind an 8 foot fence is Polly’s garden. Inside are:
Communist bees
Talking tree houses
Claustrophobic moles
Secret tunnels
Drunk northen peas
