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Louise Orwin
FAMEHUNGRY
Live Art (Supported)
ABOUT THE SHOW
FAMEHUNGRY is a helter-skelter nosedive into TikTok, asking what it means to be an artist now. Fusing performance art and very real and very live TikTok Experiences, join award-winning performance artist Louise Orwin in a sisyphean mission to make art and find beauty and hope in the relentless, Almighty Algorithm-feeding attention economy.
Made in collaboration with a Gen-Z Famous TikToker, and some other surprise TikTok-Famous Faces, FAMEHUNGRY is unpredictable wild ride through TikTok for two simultaneous audiences - one in a theatre, and an unsuspecting on TikTok - that questions the lengths we go to be seen, and what it means to be hungry for fame in the face of a world on fire.
ABOUT THE COMPANY
Louise Orwin is a multidisciplinary artist working across text, performance and video. She makes research-driven, participatory projects about what it means to identify as a queer femme in a fast-moving, media-saturated world that prizes patriarchal, heteronormative narratives. Her work is fiercely queer, feminist and intersectional; cinematic, provocative, and generally filled with a heady dose of pop culture. She is constantly inspired by cultural trends online and in the real world, and often her work sees her conducting undercover, gonzo-style investigations either as the work itself, or as part of the (often lengthy) research processes that go into making.
Her work has toured all over the UK and internationally, receiving global critical acclaim. Awards include: Flying Solo Award (2015), OSBTTA Finalist (2018), British Council Edinburgh Showcase (2019), Barbican Openlab Artist (2020), Space Award (2023), The Place Choreodrome Artist (2023), Summerhall Lustrum Award (2024), The List Sit Up Award (2024).
Photo: Clémence Rebourg