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Peggy Shaw – A Film Portrait

With improvised interviews, sketches to camera and monologues from Shaw’s solo shows, both filmmakerand performer muse over the nuances of performance and gaze.This film begins

The Only Other Point

The camera travels through twenty-four rooms. There is a point. There are twenty-four points. There are over a thousand points.

Night And Day

Light on Action Light off

White Shirt

One shirt One pen One accident

The Tiger’s Mind

The Tiger’s Mind is an abstract crime thriller set against the backdrop of a brutalist villa. Six characters, the set, the music, the foley, the

Ten Days

The performance 10 Days happened during Brisley‘s DAAD artist exchange to Berlin. During this performance, which took place between 21 to 31 December 1973, Brisley

About Barbara Suckfull

I came across Barbara Suckfull`s word drawings in a catalogue… And was impressed by the visual qualities of the drawing made visible through the elegant

File Under Sacred Music

Having pioneered the use of re-enactment in contemporary visual art with a series of live art projects begun in 1996, Forsyth & Pollard turned their

Song For Rent

During its 1969 showings at the Elgin Theater, No President was preceded by the color short filmed according to Smith’s direction by photographer Don Snyder

The Empty Plan

Part documentary, part historical reconstruction and part melodrama, The Empty Plan interrogates the relationship between theory and practice in the theatre of Bertolt Brecht .

New Dream Machine Project

Shezad Dawood creates a monumental version of the dream machine invented by Brion Gysin , which became an icon in capturing the interest of several

Telephone

Telephone is a performance-based tape which engages with issues of communication, speech and meaning through the metaphor of the telephone. Telecommunication is the bearer of

Last Hours of Ancient Sunlight

In Last Hours of Ancient Sunlight, an ancient Roman sculpted bas reliefs of the Myth Medea represents the starting point for a group of actors

Sweating the Hole

“As with some of my other work, Sweating the Hole comes from an everyday event. In the winter of 1995/6 we were plagued by an

Unsculpt

Unsculpt was a performance collaboration between sculptor John Hilliard and artist Ian Breakwell in February 1970. It took place at the New London Arts Lab,

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