(above: Lachrymal Shrine, Green Park, Bath
by Barbara Dean)
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STREET SHRINES PROJECT:
Artists putting or performing with shrines on Bath's Georgian streets
Barbara Dean's performance piece called 'The Lachrymal' using re-claimed & readymade materials. Passers-by were asked to cut and onion and write a diary note in the shrine about a time that they cried. On religious shrines shrines people don't normally require onions to help them weep profusely. But this is the tactic of artist trying to empower their personal shrines with emotion.
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The Street Shrine project aims:
-to distract from Bath's 'beige city' image
-to attempt to use street spaces not even thought about
-to make work that is discrete at first glance
-and also to make impact work by choosing a site/object that might be recurring or repeating the same work in many different locations
