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.
I have made about 220 live performances over the past 20 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.
A series of four related live performances at the Maurice Einhardt Neu Gallery, Shoreditch, London commencing October 1st 2009 with resultant installation until October 31st 2009.
The National Review of Live Art, Glasgow, 14th and 15th February 2009. A performance over 2 days in 2 parts. Drawing in a trance induced state. Drawing with coloured light reflected from hand mirrors. Drawing with shadows in red/green.
This was my first live performance for a period of seven years. I had a year and a half to plan and ferment the idea of the performance, which was a part of a huge international festival of performance art in the United Kingdom.
