whatsthebigmistry will be giving a talk (about my work)

whatsthebigmistry is Priya Mistry, who is currently artist in residence at USF Verftet. In this artist talk she will focus on audience/viewer interaction, engagement and cultivating experiences working with site and transformations of spaces.

Working with modes of story-telling whatsthebigmistry creates public interventions and intimate exchanges; journeys, rallies and promenades off site and spaces made bespoke and transformed by the artist. Projects are located in a variety of settings from formal art spaces and galleries to public space in streets, markets, riversides, road side cabins, online to the use of old warehouses, listed buildings and former breweries. Mistry´s work and process is synonymous with collaboration and exploring new ways of creating.

Priya Mistry graduated from De Montfort University with BA Hons Dance & Theatre Joint (+video & photography) in 2003. She trained as a performer, featuring in productions at The Edinburgh Fringe Festival and volunteering and working in the arts, media and sports organisations, venues and companies. Later Mistry undertook a year of creative development from 20004-05. During this period she trained in aspects of visual arts at The Glasgow School of Art as an evening student