Sunday 28 November 2010
Standing on a bin 26-11-10
This is a short clip documenting sections of a three hour performance that was part of last friday afternoons project space in C02 at eca. More documentation will follow.
The sound has been removed as the conversations from the crits and the audio of other work in the show were confusing the point of the video. The intention was to document the performance...
Monday 22 November 2010
Wednesday 17 November 2010
Tuesday 16 November 2010
Monday 15 November 2010
Chris Burden...
"Burden began to work in performance art in the early 1970s, he made a series of controversial performances in which the idea of personal danger as artistic expression was central. His most well-known act from that time is perhaps the 1971 performance piece Shoot, in which he was shot in his left arm by an assistant from a distance of about five meters. Burden was taken to a psychiatrist after this piece.[vague][says who?]Other performances from the 1970s were Five Day Locker Piece (1971), Deadman(1972), B.C. Mexico (1973), Fire Roll (1973), TV Hijack (1972), Doomed (1975) andHonest Labor (1979).
One of Burden’s most reproduced and cited pieces, Trans-Fixed took place in 1974 at Speedway Avenue in Venice, California. For this performance, Burden lay face up on a Volkswagen Beetle and had nails hammered into both of his hands, as if he were beingcrucified on the car. The car was pushed out of the garage and the engine revved for two minutes before being pushed back into the garage.
Later that year, Burden performed his piece White Light/White Heat at the Ronald Feldman gallery in New York. For this work of experiment performance and self-inflicting danger, Burden spent twenty-two days lying on a triangular platform in the corner of the gallery. He was out of sight from all viewers and he could not see them either. According to Burden, he did not eat, talk, or come down the entire time." - Wiki...
Thursday 11 November 2010
Wednesday 10 November 2010
are they A frames?
I still don't know what to call a unit comprising of 2 playing cards, each supporting the other... but anyway, here is evidence that I undertook the task of building a line of said structures across the stair in the main building at eca. It appears to be easier to do on the stone of the stair rather than the plastic of my studio desk. It fell down a few times but this is the point where I ran out of cards...
I'm questioning how interesting this is... Maybe I'll try bringing in loads of playing cards, start at the end of a corridor and see how far I can get? I don't know whether there is a lot to lose in this work. Maybe it's not interesting enough...
a performance?
15 minutes stood on the bin...
now I have pins and needles in my feet.
I will up load a photo of this when I can get some to photograph me doing it...
now I have pins and needles in my feet.
I will up load a photo of this when I can get some to photograph me doing it...
Long time no blog...
It has been a while since I've blogged anything... mainly due to the cult map presentation which happened yesterday. here are some images...
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