Performances and Installations

I have made about 400 live performances over the past 33 plus years. Performance for me is not a theatrical experience. It is akin instead to a shamanic process of image making except one uses the body as a tool instead of a brush or camera. Performances tend to be durational and evolve throughout time incorporating painting, writing, slow motion movements, balance motions, music, spoken word or sound making, etc… I have given performances throughout the World and the list of venues and countries is too numerous and diverse to form any tangible reflection of my activities. Finally, the images are all that remain in photographic documentation and these serve as triggers for an unreliable memory to ponder.

Meander Kult (Part 1. Odžaci, Serbia)

18 minute performance at the International Multimedial Art Festival (IMAF) 2012, MAS Gallery, Odžaci, Serbia, 2nd September 2012. Photographs copyright 2012 Robert S. Pugh.

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Interplay: Site Unseen

4 hour performance, collaboration with Roddy Hunter. Photographs copyright 2012 Robert S. Pugh.

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The Cupboard (Der Schrank)

34 minute performance, KUNSTLERFORUM, Bonn, 11th September 2012. Photographs copyright 2012 Ralf Rozius.

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riverSend

Performance at V22 on Friday 29th June 2012. A collaboration between sound artists Brownsierra (Paddy Collins and Pia Gambardella) and ritual performance artist Shaun Caton.

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Widdershins

8 hour non stop performance. York St John University, UK. Friday 11th November 2011.

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Totem Prog

UPDATED on 10th June 2017: Here’s a video of the Totem Prog performance by studioFILMLOVE. See more videos of Shaun’s performances. studioFILMLOVE: Shaun Caton – Totem Prog.

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Traumshaft

An 8 hour non stop performance. Saturday 15th January 2011, 11am – 7pm. Catalyst Art Gallery, Ground Floor, 5 College Court, Belfast. BT1 6BX.

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Grimpen

A 5 hour performance at Dilston Grove, Southwark Park, London. Saturday 18th September 2010, 2pm-7pm.

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Deviations of Nature