RedBall Project

RedBall UK

Announcing the first UK tour, summer 2012
Torbay – Plymouth – Exeter – Weymouth – London

Torbay: 2-5 June
Plymouth: 8-10 June
Exeter: 15-17 June
Weymouth: 21-24 June
London: 27 June-1 July /strong>

RedBall UK online:
redballproject.com/uk | Twitter @redballproject|
and
www.redballuk.co.uk | Twitter @RedBallUK | Flickr RedBall Project

Co-produced by Torbay Council and The Dartington Hall Trust

This summer, New York artist Kurt Perschke brings his celebrated art project, the fifteen foot inflatable RedBall, to the UK for its first tour. Arriving on the streets of the English Riviera in Torbay in June, RedBall then tours to Plymouth, Exeter, Weymouth before ending its tour on London’s South Bank.

From Chicago to Barcelona, Taipei to Abu Dhabi, RedBall has intrigued and engaged people all over the world. The sculptural performance appears as a series of daily urban architectural interventions and the gigantic ball has been seen in unexpected locations worldwide – squeezed into alleyways and underpasses, inflated in town squares, and squashed into bus shelters and bridge arches. The playful and charismatic nature of RedBall sparks the imagination across cultures and continents.

The UK tour of RedBall is co-produced by Torbay Council and The Dartington Hall Trust. During the tour RedBall will visit each city, changing location several times. For a short while, neglected spaces become realms of possibilities as the ball literally squashes into place, at once occupying and celebrating our built environment.

Producers, Funders and Partners for RedBall UK

Co-produced by Torbay Council and The Dartington Hall Trust.

Funded by Arts Council England – Grants for Arts.
In partnership with: Plymouth City Council, Exeter City Council, Weymouth City Council and South Bank Centre, London.

RedBall UK has been granted the Inspire mark by the London 2012 Inspire programme.

The London 2012 Inspire programme recognises innovative and exceptional projects that are directly inspired by the 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games.

Press Representative for RedBall UK tour:
Alison Wright PR
Tel: +44 (0)1608 811 474
Email: alison@alisonwrightpr.com

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'One of the best things about RedBall Project is that it's really very funny. The absurdity of this balloon-at-large makes you smile. It also brings, like all good sculpture, a compulsion to reach out and touch.'
Matt Buchanan, The Sydney Magazine
'The temporary has the potential to afford public participation in its making of during its life. So, RedBall lives in all its conceived or carried-out musings on lace, in all the impossible places it occupied but could not remain. Whereas for the Kapoor (sculpture in Millennium Park) great lengths were taken at great expense to achieve the near impossible, RedBall breathes because of its temporality. RedBall invokes impermanence in its constant mutability and migration.'
Mary Jane Jacob 'Art Outside In, Inside Out', essay
'RedBall straddles the realms of formalist sculpture, street performance, ephemeral urban installation and hands-on art object, without ever deciding for any one terrain over the others - its presence in Barcelona was an unequivocal success.'
Jeffrey Swartz, Barcelona Curator
'Every time a passerby says - 'You know, I know the perfect place to put it!' - RedBall has succeeded in creating a moment of imagination. This is the core of the Project's goal, not the object itself, but how in relation to a site and in the context of its temporary movements, the passerby can immediately take it on as an imaginative act.'
Kurt Perschke, Artist
'He draws upon the already rich and full context of the city in which the ball is sited, not remolding it, but rather interacting and playing with it. In our experience of this work we find the spaces of the city and, in the tradition of Duchamp, we play a role.'
Mary Jane Jacob 'Art Outside In, Inside Out', essay

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