Performing Rock, 2021 - 2025
A live performance artwork
Duration: 9min - 18min
Performing by standing and holding a medium-sized 26kg rock ‘borrowed’ from the local landscape, using sound, light and projected visuals.
To date, this work has been performed live to an audience in the UK at the Hundred Years Gallery and Filet Gallery, at the Wirksworth Art Festival, in Iceland, Korpúlfsstaðir during the SíM residency, and a live stream via OBS for Out of Site / based in Chicago, US; in Cyprus at Artseen Gallery, The Blunk Space in California, the Châteaux Arton in Lectoure, France, and the auditorium at Bilbao Museum Guggenheim, Spain.
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Performing Rock - Live Performance 16min, 6 pm CET, Nov 2022
Museo Bilbao Guggenheim (Auditorium)
PERFORMANCE CREDIT / MATERIALS: medium-sized Basque rock (borrowed from the local landscape), light, light projector, video and soundtrack of gathered field material and previous performances. swimming drone documentation (by Lorenzo Laurent) and Circle Documentation (by Sam Pinkstone).
Performing Rock - Live Performance 8min, 6 pm GMT, 27 May 2022
SÍM Residency, korpúlfsstaðir Iceland
PERFORMANCE CREDIT / MATERIALS: medium-sized volcanic rock (borrowed from Iceland's landscape), light, light projector, video and soundtrack of gathered field material and previous performances. swimming documentation (drone by Lorenzo Laurent) and internet downloads/collections ie. Alexander Rudin's BACH Cello Suite # 1 1/6.
Performing Rock - Going (gone) under the weather, (still clip) 2pm CET, July 2022
Out of Site / OBS live stream.
PERFORMANCE CREDIT / MATERIALS: medium-sized volcanic rock (borrowed from Iceland's landscape), light, light projector, video and soundtrack of gathered field material, humming, and previous performances. swimming documentation (drone footage by Lo Laurent) and internet downloads/collections ie. Alexander Rudin's BACH Cello Suite # 1 1/6.
Performing Rock: Going (Gone) under the weather, 2pm GMT, 16 June 2022
Filet Gallery, London
PERFORMANCE CREDIT / MATERIALS: medium-sized volcanic rock (borrowed from Iceland's landscape), light, light projector, video and soundtrack of gathered field material and previous performances. swimming documentation (drone by Lorenzo Laurent) and internet downloads/collections ie. Alexander Rudin's BACH Cello Suite # 1 1/6.
Performing Rock: Drawing is a landing place, 13min 2 pm GMT, 11 Sept 2022
Workswirth Art Festival (with Liane Lang's residency exhibition).
PERFORMANCE CREDIT / MATERIALS: medium-sized rock (borrowed from the landscape), light, light projector, video and soundtrack of gathered field material and previous performances. internet downloads/collections ie. heartbeat, music and Ben Rubin's interviews with athletes, We Believe We Are Invincible, 2004. and Alexander Rudin's BACH Cello Suite # 1 1/6.T
Performing Rock: Drawing is a landing place, Live Performance 13min, 7 pm GMT, 13 Oct 2021
Hundred Years Gallery, London UK.
PERFORMANCE CREDIT / MATERIALS: medium-sized rock (borrowed from local park), light, paper, and soundtrack of previous performances and internet downloads/collections ie. heart beat, music and Ben Rubin's interviews with athletes, We Believe We Are Invincible, 2004.
Performing Rock, (Blunk Space), 18min, 2023
PERFORMANCE CREDIT / MATERIALS: medium-sized rock (borrowed from Blunk Estate)
(on this occasion there was no supporting soundtrack but a live breath.)
Performing Rock, (Châteaux Arton), 20min, 2023
PERFORMANCE CREDIT / MATERIALS: Performed with limestone from the fields of Lectoure France, in collaboration with Laure Chan playing J.S. Bach’s Chaconne from Partita No.2 in D minor for solo violin BWV 1004
photographer: Laurent Ferrière / exhibition Vineart
