Because of Love

Performance by Franko B with music by Othon, light design by Nigel Edwards, singing by Mitch Miller and animation by Thomas Qualmann. Developed in dialogue with Gilles Jobin and Tim Etchells

(2012-2014)

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about:

Franko B presents his new multi-disciplinary live performance, Because of Love: volume 1. The piece represents a major departure in Franko’s practice, moving away from the gallery based tableaux vivants of his previous work.

Drawing upon memories of vivid moments and experiences of art, film and dance from different stages in his life, this piece is about life, childhood, humanity, inhumanity, love and grief. Intimate connections are made between personal memories and lived experiences... experiences that can be mediated by someone else’s voice or art form, or appropriated to become one’s own in a way which is both personal and political.

performances:

2013

  • The Place Theatre, London

  • Norwich Arts Centre

  • Warwick Arts Centre

  • Toynbee Studios, London

  • Festival di la Terre, Verona

2014

  • Theater Im Pumpenhaus, Munster

2012

  • Laban Theatre, London

  • Colchester Arts Centre, UK

  • Lancaster Institute for the Contemporary Arts



photos:

photographs by Hugo Glendinning

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videos:



catalogue:



texts:

“A show that begins with silence; the silence of recall: Franko B’s walk, brief shifts in his body, interludes of movement. The silence that allows you to inhabit its deepest corners; the stillness that begins to open you up to movement; he is here, in front of us, ready to be looked at, ready to be loved, navigating emotional states, excavating memory.”

Programme Notes: Franko B’s Because of Love, Diana Damian (2014) >

  • • Programme Notes: Franko B's Because of Love

    Diana Damian (2014)

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  • • Franko B in Conversation With James Morgan

    (2013)

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reviews:

  • • Franko B: Because of Love

    Laura Burns, This is Tomorrow (2013)

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  • • Franko B: Because of Love

    Fred Dalmaso, total Theatre Magazine (2013)

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  • • Franko B: Because of Love

    Honour Bayes, Total Theatre Magazine (2013)

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  • • Franko B: Because of Love, The Place Theatre, London

    Jareh Das, Aesthetica (2013)

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related works:

  • • Because of Love: Installation Version

    installation (2016)

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  • • Love in Times of Pain

    performance (2010)

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  • • Milk & Blood

    performance (2015-2018)

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  • • Don't Leave Me This Way

    performance (2006-2009)

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