The Body
Sound arrangements/sculptures
Studio as site for spontaneity
Action for person
Action for video
Action for nobody
A space for/of failure and potential
An Alive Unaccomplished Scenario
A compulsion?
An embaressment?
A freedom?
Only ever half way
Hopeful or hopeless?
Broken or unmade?
Trelex Residency, Switzerland.
Initial thinking, reflection, working- what is live art but being when no body is present?
Myself and fellow artist and co director of The Penthouse Debbie Sharp are on a 3 week residency at Trelex Residency, Switzerland (ran by artist Nina Rodin).
My work has been very surrounded by people and about sharing the live and sonic art space over the last 6 months or so as my venture into ‘being’ in my work deepens. I have courted chaos fired by adrenaline and made work directly for and infront of/amongst an audience. So in a quiet studio in a little town outside of Geneva I find myself in a radically different scenario.
Nobody is looking at me or the work and none of it will last.
[I need to add at this point that I am not an extrovert or exhibitionist or a natural performer in the traditional sense. I have found myself in this area of working due to being uncomfortable with the comfortable and pushing at what scares me. ]
I will blog my current thinking and working during this residency with some reflections on recent related works including that of my Chinese Arts Centre residnecy project and my recent work CUNT ROCK for Be Live at The Penthouse. I may not blog any/many outcomes or live works whilst I work out this massive contradiction.
