Save Me - Search Party 2010

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  Photo: Tim Mitchell

Using flags instead of spoken words, Search Party attempt to test the boundaries of intimacy. Divided by the River Thames, Search Party send messages to one another using semaphore signals. The conversation is recorded, the miscommunications documented and passers-by are encouraged to help decipher the messages and draft responses. Save Me explores ideas of separation, belonging, S.O.S messages and the art of conversation.

Established in 2005, Search Party is a collaboration between artists Pete Phillips and Jodie Hawkes. Search Party are committed to making immediate, hopeful performances that re-negotiate the relationship between artist and audience, creating temporary communities and inviting spectators to become cocollaborators in the live event. Search Party playfully explore ideas of duality, fragility, duration, and the relationship between people and places.

Save Me is re-presented at the Thames Festival by home live art as part of A River Enquiry: a series of new artworks created in response to the River
Thames.

Cold Water Fun - Tim Etchells
Thames Water - Amy Sharrocks

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