Around 500 participants – usual radio listeners, no dancers or actors – were invited to enter the Leipzig train station, equipped with cheap, portable radios and earphones. By means of these devices they could listen to a radio program consisting of a choreography suggesting permitted and forbidden gestures (to beg, to sit or lie down on the floor etc.).
Debut film of Turner Prize winner Gillian Wearing. Supported by Fly Film Production, Third Films,Channel 4 Britdoc Foundation, the Arts Council of England and Abandon Normal Devices. see also: P1886 Gillian Wearing exhibition catalogue
A collection of instruments that deploy security and surveillance technologies in unusual and playful contexts, prompting visitors to reflect on their personal sense of security and their relationship with public fears (of petty crime, terrorism, etc.). The first instrument to be built is a steel harp with strings of razor wire, which requires the harpist to wear protective gauntlets to play it.
Performance Matters, Trashing Performance Talks
See also PVI Collective DVD Showreel catalogued under D1790.