Theatre Collection The Alastair Snow Archive
About Alastair Snow
Alastair Snow is an artist and photographer who has had exhibitions and commissions presented at the Edinburgh Festival,
Brighton Festival, Hippodrome Night Club in London, Leadmill Sheffield, Serpentine Gallery, Modern Art Oxford,
Cambridge Darkroom, Glasgow Garden Festival, Royal West of England Academy and the National Review of Live Art in March 2010.
Alastair also has 30 years experience of working in the arts and with extensive knowledge of culture and planning policy across the UK,
he maintains a professional career as a senior arts executive, an independent consultant and as an advocate and
enabler of art and design in the public realm.
Alastair's Archive contains a wealth of material from his performances, including many photographs and props such as
The Guerilla Squad masks and pieces of 'edible art' from the Edible Art Association event in 1981.
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The Guerilla Squad
 Baron Alban devised The Guerilla Squad in 1986 as a remarkable concept in concussed percussion,
sparked by the tactics of confrontation and deterrent in an uncertain age of reason. It consisted of up to
25 percussionists and amplified ironing-boards played with timpani sticks, a highly charged domestic metaphor
to promote home centred society under fire and under threat.
A disco version was presented at the Hippodrome Night Club in London with a sonic arrival on the Flying Phantom*,
a fire tug on the Clyde at the Glasgow Garden Festival.
Following the riots in Korea, the performance took on more of a militaristic identity given by a locally recruited
and rehearsed company of artists, dancers, musicians and enterprising members of the general public, many new to
or unfamiliar with the confrontational aspects of live art.
(Information taken from Alastair Snow's website)
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L'Ironique Des Gorillas
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The Guerilla Squad
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