Dedomenici attempts to take a full length photo using a photo booth.
Invites the audience into the depths of the surface-oriented world of the performer, where the personal and the material are mutually imminent, where style is content, the ‘how’ is inseparable from the ‘what’, and the difference between fiction and reality is irrelevant.
See Also: Big Girls Do Big Things (D1751)
A sequence of 6 solo performances, each made alternately by Hancock and Kelly in response to the previous piece, made by the other.
Programme notes:Suspended in the space between two worlds, can one of them ever become home? How do memories preserve identity? Does dust ever settle on the past? Does grass grow over it? Natasha Davis’ third solo show completes her trilogy on body, identity and migration. Her poetic journey evokes migratory bodies burdened with past memories, present fears and future anxieties.Created in collaboration with Martin Langthorne and Bob Karper and with generous mentorship from Ju Row Farr and Dominic Johnson.Preceded by a short performance by an early career artist on the bar stage. Post show Q&A free to ticket holders.
Performance Matters 5th October 8.30pm.Musical Pieces / I Wanna Be in That ShowAugusto Corrieri and Owen ParryToynbee Studios.Part of an ongoing investigation into solo performance, Musical Pieces explores the deceptive qualities of perception and attention offered by the theatre, playing with different forms of on-stage concealment and trickery.I Wanna Be in that Show is a performance about wanting to be in a performance. It draws on the feeling of seeing a performance and recognising one’s own desire to be in it or to have created it. It’s about art that drives you to make more art, to revel in its forms and textures and to question the bodies that occupy it.
This item is part of the Study Room Guide On shit, piss, blood, sweat and tears by Lois Keidan (P2195)
Journal of Writing in creative Practice Volume 2 Number 1
Out of Now critical account of Tehching Hsieh’s complete body artworks from 1978-1999, conceived by the artist in collaboration with writer and curator Adrian Heathfield.Heathfield’s meditation is complemented by an intensive exchange with the artist and a set of letters from leading art theorists Peggy Phelan and Carol Becker, and artists Marina Abramovic, Santiago Sierra, and Tim Etchells, 245 x 320 mm 384 pages 173 colour illustrations and 140 black and white illustrations. This item is part of the Study Room Guide On (W)Reading Performance Writing by Rachel Lois Clapham (P1433)
Produced by Internationales Sommertheater-Festival Hamburg ’90. Photographic documentation by Carme Masià. Spanish and English.
Appears in the series which collects recordings of conversations with female pioneers of performance art and provides insight into their self-image and thinking.