Tag Archives: performance

displaying art in alternative spaces 0

“We can once again declare the Museum makes its ‘mark,’ imposes its ‘frame’ (physical and moral) on everything that is exhibited in it, in a deep and indelible way.” [Daniel Buren]

In 1824 William Hazlitt, on visiting the newly opened National Gallery in Trafalgar Square initiated what remains, in 2009 a contemporary topic of discussion, that [...]

steven cohen: life is shot, art is long 1

Michael Stevenson Gallery is presenting Steven Cohen’s first solo exhibition in South Africa in more than 10 years. In this decade Cohen, who has lived in France since 2003, has become internationally recognised for his performance art, yet his work has been seen infrequently at home and in the gallery context. This exhibition will refocus [...]

barney ashton: barking 0

In addition to being a poet, playwright and performance artist, Barney Ashton is an intuitive photographer and filmmaker as well as a curator and expert on British archival documentary. His executive production credits include cabaret concerts for DVD with Eartha Kitt and Marc Almond. In early 2008, he appeared on the BBC’s Horizon. The episode, [...]

clementine the living fashion doll 0

Mark Mander is one of the UK’s premier puppeteers. After art school he worked as a sculptor for Madame Tussaud’s and as a set model maker for Cameron Mackintosh before focusing on his first love, puppetry. Mark has been working in London, both as a puppeteer and puppet designer/maker for the BBC, ITV, Disney UK [...]

mark mander interview 0

Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth. [Oscar Wilde]
In Biology, mimicry is the similarity in appearance an organism takes on from another that affords it concealment and protection. This is only modestly applicable in the case of Mark Mander and [...]

film places, film people: the lux and jack smith 0

Sometime in the second half of the 1990s, when Shoreditch in East London was morphing into the epicentre of London’s arts and fashion scene, a moving image venue called Lux opened in Hoxton Square. The Lux building was quite minimalist in design, but not in purpose. It was about merging video art and art cinema, [...]

entering the world of ricci/forte 0

Once upon a time the most profound of friendships occurred. A meeting of two great minds, eager to embark upon a journey that witnessed the birth of stage masters Ricci/Forte. Like identical twins or two halves of the very same self their creative power lies in an ever indulgent admiration for the other. In their [...]

lingering whispers 1

For who can wonder that man should feel a vague belief in tales of disembodied spirits wandering through those places which they once dearly affected, when he himself, scarcely less separated from his old world than they, is for ever lingering upon past emotions and bygone times, and hovering, the ghost of his former self, [...]

sterling ruby: the masturbators 0

Foxy Production presents The Masturbators, a multiple channel video installation by Sterling Ruby that provocatively complicates the genre of performance video. Ruby uses porn stars as performers, positioning his viewers as the voyeurs of his actors’ intimate sexual actions, in a charged examination of the role of the artist and the construction of masculinity.
Male porn [...]

ana mendieta: untitled (rape scene) 0

Ana Mendieta’s photograph Isla, 1981
Estate of Ana Mendieta Collection and Whitney Museum of American Art
Having been exiled from her home country of Cuba at just age thirteen had a great impact on the work of Ana Mendieta. Producing art during the 1970s right up until her tragic death in 1985, Mendieta explored themes of ethnic [...]