Abstract/Summary

Broad Street Mall, Reading, 9 February, 2019 Reading International present the latest iteration of Steven Warwick’s mutating Mezzanine series, The Riddle of the Imp on the Mezzanine (My Journey). Part platform as performance, part live event Warwick reflects on how forces of social evil, religious retribution and redemption manifest in popular culture and folklore; be it in the Lincoln Imp, Pinhead from Hellraiser or popular literary sleuths such as Poirot. ‘The Riddle of the Imp on the Mezzanine’ is a sonic performance that will comprise of text and spoken word within a unique site-specific installation situated within the bowels of Broad Street Shopping Mall, a ritualised site, symbolic of commercial exchange and social demographics. It is part of NOVEL’s curatorial project "A reproduction of three weeks in May 1970".