KINDLING | Peter Jacobs

Durational: 12-2pm, 3-5.30pm (parental advisory)

An examination of the nature and value of reading and the printed word in an
increasingly digital age.
What is the value of printed books? And how can you control, manipulate and
destroy education, ideas and narratives once transferred from page to human
consciousness?
KINDLING explores the relationship between words and ideas, imagination and
experience in a durational installation performance that questions why we
read, the value of books as artefacts and where they take us individually and as
a society.
Presented by Word of Warning, STUN + Z-arts during Emergency 2014, Saturday, 4 October
2014.
Performers: Stewart Richard Ainsworth, Dave Dickinson, Julian Evans, Karen Forshaw,
Janet House, Peter Jacobs, Simon Liddiard, Sen Robertson, Darren Swindells
KINDLING was written and devised by Peter Jacobs with support from Word of Warning and
hb.
Peter would like to thank the performers and the following people for their support,
learning, enthusiasm, inspiration, and generally making the impossible seem possible:
Ged Jones, Adam James, JocJonJosch, Bren OCallaghan, Theo Clinkard, Ron Athey, Tamsin
Drury and everyone at Word of Warning, hb and Z-Arts, Adrian Lourie, Peter Mitchell, the
usual suspects at Natural State Performance Network, Adam Wilson Holmes, Pavlos
Kountouriotis, Hamish MacPherson, Justin R Hunt, Jez Dolan, Daniel Knorr, Paul Darling,
Clifford Owens, Leda Franklin, Angelo Musco, Typhaine Delaup, Pau Ros, Julian Baker and
Manel Ortega. And anyone else who thinks they deserve a mention here
PETER JACOBS is a Manchester-based mature photographic model and performer in photographic,
performance and situational art installations.
He enjoys exploring identity and sexuality through photography. His modelling
work ranges from fine art portraiture through to narrative, bear imagery, fetish
and pin-up.
He started volunteering for public participation art events in 2009 and has
progressively sought out more complex and involving projects as his experience
has grown. In 2010 he took part in a photographic installation by American
photographer Spencer Tunick, which has led to an interest in nude performance.
Since taking his clothes off for art for the first time Peter has become one of a large group of
dedicated amateur performers experienced in participating in naked art projects. But Peter has
continued to work within a wide range of different types of performance including photographic,
situational and gallery installations, art and theatrical performances in the UK and Europe.
In recent years Peter has started to devise his own performance concepts with a view to developing
his own practice as a performer and artist. His interests lie in exploring ideas of ordinariness and
considering the unthinking choreography and meaning of unconsidered everyday life and routine.
He is also interested in ageing, masculinity and male sexual identity.
Website | peter-jacobs.weebly.com
Twitter | @PeterTJacobs