- Venue
- Tactile Bosch
- Starts
- Thursday, January 7, 2010
- Ends
- Monday, February 8, 2010
- Address
- The Old Library The Hayes Cardiff City Centre Wales CF10 1AH
- Location
- Wales
The photographic documentation of Performance Art events is often simply understood as a prosaic method of documenting the act for future reference and so its strengths as a stand-alone Art form have yet to be fully tested. However, these images are often fascinating, poignant and even humorous in their own right. They are a montage of esoterically linked everyday objects juxtaposed with a performer, focused in their entirety on a single, ultimately pointless, action; all frozen in a single frame. The photographs, with their distorted everyday actions and objects, can come across as a something anywhere between an uncanny distortion of the everyday and a gross and disturbing dream-like sequence. Reduplication of the Real will showcase a diversity of photographs that document Live Art Actions by both established and emerging artists from both national and international backgrounds. Some images will stand-alone while others will form small sets covering an individual performance. The exhibition will highlight the strengths of performance Art documentation and will lead the way towards further dialogue about the images as standalone works.
