What’s your claim to fame?
Claim to Fame is a unique and playfully interactive enquiry which attempts to build a community of strangers linked solely by their brushes with stardom.
Convinved that everybody has one Jo has been asking people to take part in this exchange by answering the question 'what's your claim to fame?' This provocation has led to a collection of prized encounters, personal achievements and random celebrity meetings which are in turn surprising, touching and humourous.
Taking the form of a one to one encounter the work seeks to question our attitudes to familiarity and intimacy. It is an attempt to enliven the past, by reliving, retelling, recording and reunion. It is about slight yet intimate encounters and attempts to be one itself.
Most of all claim to fame is an excuse to meet people so if you have ever passed David Hasselhoff in the street, are distantly related to Helen Mirren, once cut Mick Jaggers hair or anything in-between why not contact Jo and add your story to the claim to fame collection.
Claim to Fame is a unique and playfully interactive enquiry which attempts to build a community of strangers linked solely by their brushes with stardom.
Convinved that everybody has one Jo has been asking people to take part in this exchange by answering the question 'what's your claim to fame?' This provocation has led to a collection of prized encounters, personal achievements and random celebrity meetings which are in turn surprising, touching and humourous.
Taking the form of a one to one encounter the work seeks to question our attitudes to familiarity and intimacy. It is an attempt to enliven the past, by reliving, retelling, recording and reunion. It is about slight yet intimate encounters and attempts to be one itself.
Most of all claim to fame is an excuse to meet people so if you have ever passed David Hasselhoff in the street, are distantly related to Helen Mirren, once cut Mick Jaggers hair or anything in-between why not contact Jo and add your story to the claim to fame collection.
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"Charming" **** Lyn Gardner, Guardian
