Medicine Unboxed15 Elo 2015

VOICE - Bobby Baker performs Ballistic Buns

Performed Voice: Ballistic Buns is a brief fragment of Bobby Baker's research into her own family history focusing on mental illness, family survival techniques and the impact of war, unhappiness and frustrated ambition on subsequent generations. This 10-minute piece involved tales of the Vicar of Byker, the Ballistic Engineer, the Life Long Anorexic, the 16” German Howitzer named affectionately 'Big Bertha', capable of blasting plenty of folk to smithereens in the First World War, the Dambusters of the Second World War and a Tasty Ending. Bobby Baker is a woman, and an artist. She lives in London. In a career spanning nearly four decades she has, amongst other things, made a life-sized edible version of her family and driven around the streets of London strapped to the back of a truck yelling at passers by through a megaphone to ‘Pull Yourselves Together.’ Baker’s touring exhibition Diary Drawings: Mental Illness and Me 1997- 2008 premiered at the Wellcome Collection in 2009, and the accompanying book of the same name won the Mind Book of the Year 2011. Her most recent live show, Mad Gyms & Kitchens, was commissioned as part of the London 2012 Unlimited project for the Cultural Olympiad. Baker is a past recipient of three separate Wellcome Arts Awards, and occupies a unique professional and personal position in the worlds of both the arts and mental health. Following an AHRC Creative Fellowship at Queen Mary University, London she was awarded an Honorary Doctorate in 2011. Bobby Baker is the Artistic Director of Daily Life Ltd, part of the Arts Council National Portfolio.

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Described by Le Monde as ‘As fine an actor as she is a singer’ (Eliza Doolittle, My Fair Lady, Theatre du Chatelet), Sarah Gabriel is a singer, writer, and actor with a passion for creating work with ...

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MATTER - Helen Gordon - TIME

Helen Gordon's books include Notes from Deep Time (Profile), Landfall (Penguin) and, with Travis Elborough, Being a Writer (Frances Lincoln). She has written about nature, science, clothes and books f...

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MATTER - TABLA - Gurdain Rayatt

Born and raised in UK, Gurdain Rayatt is one of the leading tabla players and teachers in UK and Europe performing internationally with renowned Indian Classical musicians as well as world/crossover a...

2 Huhti 202419min

MATTER - Anil Seth - WORLD

"What makes the difference between being conscious at all and being a chunk of living meat, or lifeless silicon, without any inner universe?" Anil Seth is a neuroscientist, author, and public speaker...

2 Huhti 202425min

MATTER - Richard Holloway - SPIRIT

"In an aimless universe the emergence of compassion is an evolutionary miracle, a shock as remarkable as the sudden jump into life." Richard Holloway is a Scottish writer and broadcaster, and was for...

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MATTER - Kit De Waal - SKIN

"One of the pods hangs low, right next to Leon’s face. Inside are five tiny black seeds, smaller than his little fingernail. He picks one out and holds it up to the sun." Kit de Waal was born in Birm...

2 Huhti 202417min

MATTER - Arthur Jeffes - PIANO

Arthur Jeffes founded Penguin Cafe in 2009, bringing together a talented and disparate group of musicians initially to perform his father Simon Jeffes’ legacy of world renowned PCO music, ten years af...

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MATTER - Stephen Ellcock - PATTERN

"We have searched for correspondence between the heavens and the Earth and between nature and the human body. " Stephen Ellcock is a renowned image collector whose online “cabinet of curiosities”—an ...

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