Sid Smith
Sid’s work departs from Kafka’s unfinished play ‘The Warden of the Tomb’. The play centres around workplace disputes and class divisions. These works could be read as adaptations that address the politics underpinning who makes a complaint and how it is understood.
The CEO of a Nationwide Homecare Provider leans out of the window. Two removal men look up at her from the car park. The lights dim. CEO [turning from window]: It could be an abuse. But it isn’t an abuse, is it?
A1 Drawing, Biro/Pencil
An Estate Agent and his Apprentice enter a double room with brown carpets. The Apprentice points at the stained divan. The Estate Agent turns to the audience, mopping his forehead. The Apprentice moves around the divan, checking underneath it, sitting on different areas, bouncing. Estate Agent: Any complaints? Apprentice: [still bouncing]: Hard work – hard work – not complaining – but very weak – wrestling bouts every night.
A1 Drawing, Biro/Pencil
A Security Team Member of a City Park drives her red buggy to centre stage. Spotlight. She breathes heavily. Slowly she takes off her high-vis and places it on her lap. She lifts her head to face the audience and sobs softly. Security Team Member: First they give orders.
A1 Drawing, Biro/Pencil
A1 Drawing, Biro
Sid Smith is an artist and co-curator of Mascara Film Club working with film and drawings that look at unstable housing, financial disparity and suppression. She examines the discomfort of class and illness, with a concern for compression, removal and mood. Recent screenings of her work include BFI, CCA Glasgow, Deptford Cinema, Fabrica Gallery, Modern Art Oxford, Nottingham Contemporary, Spike Island and Whitechapel Gallery.
Website: Sid Smith
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