Past Event
The Whitechapel Gallery is committed to making all of our events as accessible as possible for every audience member. Please contact access@whitechapelgallery.org if you would like to discuss a particular request and we will gladly discuss with you the best way to accommodate it.
– Information about access on site at the gallery is available here https://www.whitechapelgallery.org/visit/access/
– This includes information about Lift access; Borrowing wheelchairs & seating; Assistance Animals; Parking; Toilets and baby care facilities; Blind & Partially Sighted Visitors; Subtitles and transcripts; British Sign Language (BSL) and hearing induction loops; Deaf Messaging Service (DMS).
About This Event
– This event takes place in Gallery 2 at Whitechapel Gallery
– You must purchase a ticket to attend the event. If you require a Personal Assistant to support your attendance, we can offer them a seat free of charge, but it must be arranged in advance.
– If the ticket price affects your attendance, please email tickets@whitechapelgallery.org to be added to the guest list (no questions asked, but dependent on availability).
– This event is suitable for those over the age of 16
– We are unable to provide British Sign Language interpretation for this event
– We are unable to provide live closed captioning or CART for this event.
– This event last approximately 45 minutes. There are no rest breaks currently scheduled during this event.
Transport
– To the best of our knowledge, there are no planned disruptions to local transport on the date of the event.
– Our nearest train station – Aldgate East Underground (1 min) is not wheelchair accessible. The closest wheelchair accessible stations are Whitechapel (15 min), Shoreditch High Street (15 min) or Liverpool Street (15 min).
– Free parking for Blue Badge holders is available at the top of Osborn Street in the pay and display booths for an unlimited period. Spaces are available on a first come, first served basis.
This event is now fully booked. To join the waiting list, please call the box office on 020 7522 7888 from 11am on the day of the event.
Mirror2 is a live artwork preoccupied by isolation, repetition, and routine – human conditions which concern, absorb, and connect us. Created during lockdown, this performance builds upon Smith’s reputation for innovation, unpredictability, and a sculptural approach to inhabiting space. The central music is the piece Two6 by John Cage with other audio works completing the soundtrack. The movement draws on influences that include Pina Bausch, Merce Cunningham, Station House Opera, Theatre of Mistakes, Gary Stevens, Kenneth McMillian, Trisha Brown, and Yvonne Rainer.
The performers are Lise Boucon, Sarah April Lamb and Randolph Matthews. Paola Piccato is associate choreographer.
More information about the development of the work can be found here.
Terry Smith’s multidisciplinary practice has been exhibited internationally. Nick Serota invited Terry to make interventions in Bankside Power station in 1996 before it became Tate Modern. In 2014, Drawing Center and New Museum in New York commissioned his street work Capital Revisited. The same year he was also invited to present a performance, The Foundling, at the Ca Pesaro in Venice, developed from a project commissioned by the Foundling Museum in London. He collaborated with Randolph Matthews in a new work Shadows 2021 shown at the Quarterhouse Folkestone.
Smith is well known for initiating interventions and disruptions in public museums, galleries, and derelict buildings, cutting into the walls of the buildings from Peckham to Venezuela, in the British Museum, Tate Modern, MACBA Barcelona and Museo de Bellas Artes, Caracas.
