Bags on the Bus
Filmed on a bumpy country bus route in Brazil, Bags on the Bus, was made as the two artists set out to work together for the first time. It focuses, not on the view through the window, but on the journey itself as a place of imagination and excited anticipation; the empty bus becomes enlivened by fictitious passengers.
The work is influenced by Orhan Pamuk’s early novel ‘New Life’ in which bus journeys between cities and the activity of waiting, depict travel as a trajectory across different ideas, relationships and timeframes. It also connects with notions of slow travel.
Funded by Artists Links – The British Council, Brazil and The Arts Council of England.
Patricia Azevedo is based in Brazil,
Clare Charnley is based in the UK.
Patricia Azevedo and Clare Charnley’s joint project, Games of distance and proximity, ran from 2009 to 2019. Their actions can be considered as a game about communication itself, where the boundaries of the ‘ magic circle ‘ are not clearly defined and their rules are never quite established. Without a referee, decisions have to be worked out between the players. This happens outside fixed time, and in a space that does not exist. Also condider that the players do not speak the same language .