24th October
The Spill Festival of Performance arranged by the Pacitti Company had asked the University if any art students wanted to volunteer to be involved in one of Shaun Caton’s performances. I was very interested in performance and working directly with a performance artist was very appealing.
I was wondering if performance was for me and what it was about it that I found appealing. Did I want audience participation? Is it just so that I can be seen or that I want to make a statement? What is it that I am trying to achieve through performance? Is it that I just like that heightened awareness feeling of being totally immersed in something?
Shaun Caton is a performance artist and his performances can be over a substantial duration of time or can be very short. Performances often include rituals, fetishes and myths and involve gatherings of creatures in either a prehistoric or post-apocalyptic time.
