- Venue
- Norwich Arts Centre
- Starts
- Saturday, September 4, 2010
- Ends
- Saturday, October 30, 2010
- Address
- St Benedicts Street, Norwich, NR2 4PG
- Location
- East England
AFTERLIVE (Blast Theory, Rachel Lois Clapham & Emma Cocker, Holly Darton, Richard Dedomenici, FrenchMottershead, Dot Howard, Richard Layzell, Open Dialogues, Performance Re-enactment Society, and Townley & Bradby). Live art, by its very nature, is ephemeral. After it has happened it takes on another life: in audience anecdotes, reviews, video clips, and photographs. However, a number of artists are actively engaged in this process: they make decisions about the afterlife of their work, and mould the shape of these anecdotes. Documentation is fallible: it can never fully represent a live work. The artists in this exhibition embrace this separation between primary and secondary forms, this room for manoeuvre; their documentation doesn’t necessarily favour authenticity and evidence over memory and imagination in the creation of a legacy for a live piece. Alongside the exhibition we will be holding a launch event, including a free daytime event by Norwich-based collective other/other/other, a panel discussion, and an evening programme of live art. Curated by Holly Rumble, an Escalator Performing Arts artist (2009-10), and co-founder of other/other/other.
