We are very excited to publish our first episode in English, which is the conversation we had with Helen Marriage. She is the director of the art production company ARTICHOKE, which develops art projects that bring art & culture „to the streets“. We hope you get as inspired as we did while listening to her!

Helen Marriage is Director of Artichoke, the arts production company she co-founded with Nicky Webb in 2005. Her previous work includes a seven-year period as Director of the Salisbury Festival, described by The Times as ‘miracle of modern British culture’. She created the first Arts & Events programme for Olympia & York, the developers of Canary Wharf in London, and was an Associate Director of the London International Festival of Theatre (LIFT).  She began her working life at Artsadmin where she managed a variety of independent artists in the early 1980s.

In 2012, she was awarded a Loeb Fellowship at Harvard Graduate School of Design, a prestigious fellowship awarded to individuals working in the area of urban design and planning. Her appointment was an acknowledgement of the impact Artichoke has made on the way mass public art events are negotiated and staged.  She was awarded an MBE for services to the arts in the New Year’s Honours list in 2016.

For more information on Helen Marriage's arts production company “Artichoke”, see their website. 

 

See   to get an impression on the work, that is being realized by Helen Marriage and her team - in this case 'The Sultan's Elephant' by Royal de Luxe, produced in London in 2006 by Artichoke.

 

 shows a resumée (by the Berliner Festspiele who brought Royal Deluxe to Berlin) of the work for the 20-year-jubilee of the Berliner Mauerfall in Berlin, and once again impressively demonstrates the power of the puppets.

 

At the Poptech Conference, Helen Marriage talks about “Art interventions”. - See the Video  .

(Check out also Videos of other speakers of this “global network committed to the vanguard of emerging technology, science, exploration, and creative expression” on YouTube.)

 

See the ted talk by Helen Mariage about “Art that turns cities into playgrounds of the imagination” here.

Eine Zusammenarbeit mit dem Institut für Kultur- und Medienmanagement (KMM) der Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hamburg (HfMT) und dem Multimediakontor Hamburg (MMKH).