Idit Nathan and Helen Stratford

Following their attendance at the Metal Digital LAB in Peterborough earlier this year, artists Idit Nathan and Helen Stratford have been invited back for a Time and Space research residency at Chauffeur’s Cottage during the autumn. Their work, both playful and interactive, explores public space and the interactions between people and place. Previous projects have resulted in performative walks and games, lectures and films. After their residency at Metal Peterborough their resulting outcome was this great web blog of their experience here in Peterborough,  check out - http://playthecitynowornever.wordpress.com/ and to find out whats next for Idit and Helen

Idit Nathan

Following twelve years as a theatre practitioner (working as a screnographer) Idit’s current visual practice is often playful and interactive. Her work creates a provocative space in which the viewer is challenged to respond to unsettling contemporary dilemmas derived from our identity as both actors of free will and actors in an historical context focusing on coexistence and tensions between past and present, the galley and ‘non gallery’ space and the activity and interactivity of the audiences that inhabit these spaces. www.iditnathan.org.uk/iditnathan.org.uk

Helen Stratford

While located between performance art, architecture and writing, Helen’s collaborative social practice researches the rhythms/routines by which people negotiate space, define and produce everyday spaces. In analysing the rhythms of daily life Helen’s practice investigates how we can rethink the power of the built environment within social, political, economic and emotional infrastructures. www.helenstratford.co.uk