BUST is a series of audiovisual vignettes by artist Emily Pope, considering the economy through the lens of satirical memoir. Drawing on the character of the stand-up comic and visuals from karaoke lyric videos, this instalment looks at, amongst other things, the indie sleaze era, living with friends, olympic redevelopment in London and the launch of Monzo, with its £1000 overdraft facility.
The evening will include a performance by Núria Bonet, featuring a number of songs written during her time in Plymouth. These pieces take a wry look at some of Bonet’s everyday obsessions, including seagulls, sausages and her Suzuki Alto. The music stems from her classical music practice and spans electronic and popular genres. Expect to hear the evergreen hit Queen Canute (the seagull piece) as well as world premiere of second sausage song.
This event is part of our current exhibition, Discord & Harmony – a group show which brings together works by contemporary artists who share Beryl Cook’s radically generous approach to representing everyday life.
About Emily Pope
Emily Pope is a multidisciplinary artist whose work spans moving image, radio, printmaking, performance, installation and publishing. She uses incisive humour, satire and political rhetoric to critically engage with histories of broadcast media to reflect on contemporary life under austerity. Since 2016, her ongoing project The Sitcom Show positions the failed sitcom as a site for political commentary, staging everyday life within shifting conditions of class struggle, lesbian identity and intersectional feminist thought. In 2020 she was artist in residence at The Box and made the film One In Every Village, interweaving Dartmoor mythology with anecdotes and memories of growing up in Plymouth.
About Núria Bonet
Núria Bonet is a composer and performer currently based in Plymouth. In her instrumental and electroacoustic music, she often explores humour and absurdity while drawing on the canon that has shaped her practice. In 2021, she published the LP Radio Sunshine: All That’s Left which combined songs on reindeers, cats and motels. She is currently performing her project Master of the Music, which explores Classical music through clowning. Núria will premiere her second sausage song at the Bratwurstsongcontest held at 1. Deutsches Bratwurstmuseum in May 2026.
