5 Questions for Gemma Paintin of Action Hero

1. What is your name?

We are Action Hero

2. How many of you are there?

There’s 2 of us, Gemma and James

3. What are you wrestling with?

We’re wrestling with Western films – a stranger riding into town, a
stand-off, a game of cards….all at noon or dusk or with dust or
tumbleweeds or all of the above.

4. What ingredients go into your art?

The ingredients are always the two of us and whoever comes to watch.
And in this piece, some ketchup and a cowboy hat.

5. What’s the signature you want to leave on this year’s Fusebox Festival?

Hmmmm, that’s tricky. I suppose we want to create the best Western
so far, since we’ll be in Texas (we’re from the UK). We’re expecting
you guys to be quick off the draw.

Action Hero make live art and performance that seeks to use audiences as collaborators and co-conspirators. Action Hero is the collaboration between artists Gemma Paintin and James Stenhouse.  We’ve been making performance together as Action Hero since 2005, and we live and work in Bristol, where we’re Arnolfini Associate Artists and members of Residence.

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WITH SUPPORT FROM THE BRITISH COUNCIL

http://www.britishcouncil.org/usa-arts

Tickets are on sale now for Action Hero’s A Western- performing April 22 – April 24

http://www.fuseboxfestival.com/artists/action-hero