International Festival of Live Performance and Time Based Media

5th -25th OCTOBER, KINGSTON UPON HULL, UNITED KINGDOM.
HOT WEEKEND 11TH - 14TH OCTOBER 1996.

For this year's ROOT festival aptly named SKINT Hull Time Based Arts and
the Ferens have challenged artists to take a look at money, poverty,
wealth and power. SKINT takes risks with the majority of the work being
new commissions and the unusual public siting of much of the work. This
combined with SKINT's commitment to tackling big issues and involving
local people in the working processes gives SKINT a subversive edge
which raises series questions about the role of the artist in society
and reflects the increasingly ephemeral nature of much contemporary art
as it moves towards more process based work and becomes increasingly
difficult to commodify.

Money is a national obsession: from the National Lottery to European
single currency. SKINT asks as we head towards the millennium, do we
live in a society obsessed with cash or has a new generation emerged
recognizing things as spiritually, ethically and materially bankrupt?

With A BROAD VISION SKINT moves between "performance povera," works
which utilise "that which is available" as in Trebor Sholz's provocative
placing of the naked body in commercial areas of the city, through to
the welcome return of Louise K Wilson to the UK with her interactive /
electronic installation Terra Firma which continues her exploration of
transformative abilities of technology and the signing over of one's
body for medical experimentation. Anna Heinrich and Leon Palmer present
Float, a large scale outdoor projection event, deconstructing power
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