ANDY WEBSTER
Rooms to Live interweaves two sculptural installations—Trout House Replica and So the Red Rose—reinventing them as sites for musical and artistic imagination. Trout House Replica recreates the Red room in the Los Angeles home where Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band composed their landmark 1969 album Trout Mask Replica. So the Red Rose features a houseboat-inspired structure referencing Vanda Chan’s fictional marooned boat Arcadia.
The project features performance, talks, workshops, screenings and artist residencies. Contributing artists/musicians include: Andy Abbott, Ray Aggs (Trash Kit), a.P.A.t.T., Agathe de Bailliencourt, Britizen Kane, Bryan Biggs, Gina Birch, Celebratory Cake, Paula Chambers, Sophie Cooper, Alan Dunn & Merseytrout, Dani Ingham & Olli Tipling, Vanessa Govinden & Jagun Meseoria (Whitelands), Malcolm Garrett, Helen McCookerybook, Nguvu, Novacane, Redell Olsen, Shoehorn, Slumberman, Chardine Taylor-Stone, David Wilkinson & Jon Gardner (Mamas of Dada), Bianca Wilson (Peg Wells), Joan the Wad & Thought Universe, and Gillian Wylde.
The work is a collaborative project with artist Derek Tyman and is funded by Arts Council England, and Bury Art Museum & Sculpture Centre.