Grey Market, Art Night Open, 2019. Supported by Art Night. Grey Market focuses on the verbal interactions that occur within street markets. The second re-iteration celebrated local stories, unique characters and the sense of community within Walthamstow Market.
Harlow embedded herself in the market in the run up to Art Night, working for free for stallholders in return for recording the daily conversations. She operated a stall, swapping printed bag editions in return for market users recalling daily anecdotes and memories of the market. These interactions informed the script for Grey Market, performed by Harlow, her ‘duplicates’ and two market traders.
Documentation of Grey Market for Art Night Open, filmed by Free Seed Films.
Listen to Byzantia Harlow’s Grey Market radio episode for Soho Radio here.