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Still from Saw (2011) Darcell Apelu

CIRCUIT Cast #84

An Interview with Darcell Apelu

Hosted by Mark Williams · April 19, 2020

Darcell Apelu talks to Mark Williams about a recent residency in Yorkshire spent contemplating her practice.

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Is time out the most productive time of all?

Darcell Apelu talks to Mark Williams about a recent residency in Yorkshire spent contemplating her practice. She also discusses a trip to her father's homeland of Niue, two resulting videos, and previous performance works which drew on the body, ideas of 'otherness' and her career as an international wood chopper.

Watch Darcell's video work on CIRCUIT here.

Applications for the Yorkshire Sculpture Park and Te Tuhi UK Residency Award 2020 are extended until 31 May 2020.

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