Artists

• Nathaniel Mellors will produce 21st Century War Film, a 16mm film short set in the landscape. The theme of the film centres on the increasingly abstract trajectory of contemporary warfare and concept of ‘enemy’, the role of computer technology and our uncertainty around the role and potential threat of chemical and biological warfare.
• Paul Rooney makes work that is interested in the everyday and its transformation and estrangement when 'set to music'. Rooney will stage a rock opera, Tony, based on a press cutting discovered in the Stan Laurel Museum, Ulverston, outlining the journey of the man who did the voiceover for the Generation Game and his relocation to America, where he married Stan Laurel’s daughter.
• Juneau Projects rebel HQ base camp in the Roadshow environs, kitted out as their centre of operations. They will provide tours of the facility for visitors through out the event with various demonstrations of what they use it for.
• Jo Roberts will interact with visitors and members from the local community. She becomes ‘Vic the Roadshow Runner’, an asexual character who will engage people through the advocacy of contemporary art, with a costume designed in conjunction with FlatPack001.
• Minerva Cuevas will produce a series of activist banners and marketing materials, continuing her work for her corporation MVC.
• Artist hermit Graeme Roger will live in the forest/outdoors at each venue for the duration of the tour. This project also corresponds to a school workshop activity where a class can contribute to the contract that will govern his activities for the duration. The hermit comes available with his own hut designed by FAT.
• Guy Bar Amotz enacts performances with sound sculptures made by Amotz himself (Matthew Barneyesque sci-fi looking backpacks), incorporating the public to create an impromptu band.
• Olaf Breuning produces a photographic poster based on themes drawn from Roadshow concept.
• S Mark Gubb will build large-scale henges out of found materials (stone, slate, cardboard boxes) with the public.
• Kevin Reid as character Harry Butler – stuntman extraordinaire, Will performs as Harry in costume on BMX and reading from Harry’s autobiography.
• Roddy Thomson and Colin Lowe install The Heel Bar, a colourful interpretation of low-key amateur business.
• Mark Titchner creates a banner for base camp inspired by Roadshow project and venues.
• Henry VIII’s Wives will create new work responding to Roadshow curatorial concept.
• Bedwyr Williams rolls up with ‘Blaenau Vista Social Club’, a towed club caravan/horsebox/burger van with two rare Besenji dogs standing sentry outside.
• The Family Iliffe four member ‘über-art-family’ team create artwork interventions throughout the town while operating under a strictest of briefs that all acts and decisions must be performed in public, in unison and as a family unit.
• Myk Henry will variously explode melons, install airbags the size of a house and race space-hoppers.
• Christian Gräser installs a replica of the 60’s invention ‘Dream Machine’ inside a pilfered cardboard geodesic dome.
• Real Institute collaborates with Philip Ilson to produce the touring film programme of over 35 films.
• Stefhan Caddick creates 'Pandacoustic' amplified automobile.
• Andrew Black creates models of alternative snowdonian lifestyles.
• Polly Braden is Roadshow photographer who will tour with the artists and document work, relationships, performances and experiences.
• Scott Williams, stencil artist extraordinaire based in San Francisco - produced album covers and posters for influential punk bands in SF. Will produce new poster for Roadshow.
• Garyoke make world music without seeing the world, Damien sings in Welsh but can’t speak the language. They irritate whilst they invigorate you by torturing well known tunes.
• Bristol Art Librarian when Bristol Library chose to cut costs and close down its arts section, ‘The Bristol Art Librarian’ turned up on the streets of Bristol complete with Librarian spectacles and portable art-library-in-a-shopping-trolley.
• Megan Broadmeadow with her bad majorette and cleaning pig, she uses time and repetition to push people's tolerance levels.
• Carphology Collective Matthew Welton's portable poetry.