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Marvin Gaye Chetwynd

Film following performance artist Marvin Gaye Chetwynd as her first solo UK show opens in Nottingham and she stages a new performance - The Green Room.

Profile of Marvin Gaye Chetwynd, one of the best-known performance artists in Britain. Nominated for the Turner Prize in 2012 (when she was known as Spartacus Chetwynd), she stages exuberant, anarchic performances in which everything from Dante and Karl Marx to drag acts and Stars Wars are drawn together to explore issues including gender politics and personal debt. The film follows Chetwynd as her first solo UK show opens in Nottingham and she stages a new performance - The Green Room.

30 minutes

Last on

Fri 23 May 201401:30GMT
BBC News North America

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Credits

Executive ProducerRichard Bright
DirectorBen Harding
ProducerBen Harding

Broadcasts

  • Sat 17 May 201412:30GMT
    BBC News except UK & UK HD
  • Sun 18 May 201400:30GMT
    BBC News except UK & UK HD
  • Sun 18 May 201407:30GMT
    BBC News except UK & UK HD
  • Sun 18 May 201419:30GMT
    BBC News except UK & UK HD
  • Wed 21 May 201423:30GMT
    BBC News North America
  • Fri 23 May 201401:30GMT
    BBC News North America