The Open University, at the ‘Polytechnical Institute for the Study of the Expanding Field of Radical Urban Life’, Archway, London.
Each of the invited speakers prepared a short lecture on the what should or should not be trashed theme
2007
Up My Street
“Not everyone was “swinging” between the coronation and the jubilee. Marcia Farquhar illustrated this point with her portable record player, her box of singles, her anecdotes of pop music history and her memories of not “being there”. It’s a child’s ’60s in the King’s Road.”
12 Shooters
12 Shooters incorporates 13 short-films by 13 different filmmakers, each a reconfiguration of a once-live work from the last 12 years of Marcia Farquhar’s practice. In each case, Farquhar and the respective ‘shooter’ together chose which work was to be revisited, and in what manner. Farquhar then dedicated her performance to their camera on an appointed day, thereafter handing all editorial control to the filmmaker.
The Interpretation of Everyday Life
Marcia Farquhar will be demonstrating an inverted psychoanalytical procedure in the lecture theatre, in which she listens to the everyday anxieties, pleasures, proclivities and desires of volunteers.
A Tale About A Tale About A Tail
In which Marcia Farquhar, dressed for the occasion, mused on the loneliness and loveliness of the great Vivien Leigh, ideas of irrepressible joie de vivre and other follies.