Poppy Scoulding's "4 Clowns walk into a Party", 10 Dec 2020

I had the pleasure for working under Artist Poppy Scoulding as an actor for her artpiece "4 Clowns walk into a party" where I was in the persona of a Mime in her 9 minute and 30 second video.

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Poppy Scoulding is a mixed media artist who focuses particularly in live art, performance to camera and installations. With an interest in human experience, fake news, and sensations. This is depicted in this work as she continues with the investigation with sensations with this video piece.

"4 Clowns Walk Into a Party" is a performative video piece by Poppy Scoulding for the BA Fine Art Course at the University of Lincoln, year 3. This module, Scoulding has worked with the Theory of Disgust by Winfried Menninghaus and humour theories to present a twisted, yet comedic experience that will twist your stomach and influence the way you see disgusting things. Scoulding was joined by artists; Beth Tompkins, Rosemarie Hogg and Fern Horton, filmed by Ashley Barton. This video piece is exploring the world of the disgusting, how entertaining it can be, and questions whether we should have the reaction to the disgusting we have - or not?! -Poppy Scoulding,

You can visit Poppy Scoulding's page focusing on the development of the project here, while below is the final video, featured on Poppy Scoulding's Vimeo account.

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Poppy Scoulding has just produced her final exhibition work for the University of Lincoln's Fine Art course titled 'The News?' which is a fake news website focusing on topics of the Coronavirus pandemic and bring a light-hearted element to 'poke fun' of fake news.

This artwork is exhibited at here.

This is part of the final degree showcase exhibition 'The Space Between Us' that launched on the 22nd May 2020. That can be visited here.