Plymouth was very cold. Wonderful, important and uplifting but very very cold. The over riding idea that sticks in my head was how the arts practices of the speakers pervaded their everyday lives. This was typified by the engrossing talk buy André Stitt who chose to create an open performance space on the bottom floor of his house. I was drawn to the shear range of performances that took place in his space and was rightly affected.
As articulated by Stitt himself performance art was created by the artist speakers because it was something they HAD to do. Something they wanted to articulate about the world around them when words failed. And it was about their lives, located around the specificity of their emotional experiences. Their open determination was inspiring.
In lieu of this and Marina Abramovic’s (although not physical) presence over the proceedings I’v decided to present 72 object (as in Rhythm 0) as document to my experience at The Pigs of Today are the Hams of Tomorrow. I got a far as 28 before the objects stopped being meaningful. So I stopped
Objects (from bottom right to left)
- ipod Plus adapter
- Golliwog (plymouth market)
- Practice-as-research. (eds) Allegue, Jones, Kershaw, Piccini
- Nike plus watch
- Conference entry band
- Pen
- Conference guide
- Foam plane
- iPod
- Tehching Hsieh pamphlet
- Mechanical pencils (all empty)
- Drawing
- The alchemy of stone. Ekaterina Sedia
- Orange hoodie
- iPod usb cable
- Conference folder
- Conference poster
- Smoking material (empty)
- Penny sweet bag (empty)
- Sennheiser headphones
- iPod charger
- The Monk, Mathew Lewis (stolen from Starbucks)
- Red ape advert
- iPhone (8gig)
- Envelope
- Umbrella
- Low Profile intervention
- String
- Duck tape
On a much smaller note I can’t believe I didn’t recognize Hayley Newman. Her performance images inspire me by rotating as my desktop background.
