Generator Projects
Dundee,
MFA show, 2008
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A wall hung exhibition and a series of five performances.
Exhibition comprised of;
- Oil paintings made in response to photos of Francis Bacon’s Study for Portrait II (after the Life Mask of William Blake). On the adjacent wall I exhibited the library book that was my source of the images. The paintings were made to be the same size as the Bacon originals.
- Two photo index cards showing self portrait photographs of Jeremy Castle, in various stages of self image fetishisation between 16 and 40 years.
- Two framed watercolour paintings painted by Mary Taylor, a woman in her 90’s.
- A torn paper composition where one sheet of sugar paper had been torn into nine equal size pieces and arranged on a base sheet identical to the first one before it was torn.
- A painted study of Susan my wife, painted in the weeks prior to the exhibtion.
Performance description;
- Holding a video camera at waist level the performance began by me filming the viewers as they entered the space.
- I asked for a volunteer to take control of the camera for me.
- After asking audience members for accessories for me to wear during performance, I sung in emotively pitched vowel sounds.
- Then I led a spoken tour of the works in the room. I spoke about my artworks and collected objects as well as a main sculptural work by another artist also exhibited in the room.
- At the beginning of the performance I asked everyone to make a mark beside their date of birth on a page of pencil written dates. There were date sheets for each of the four performances.
- The performance ended with me reading out all our dates of birth in reverse chronology.
2008
MFA exhibition at Generator Projects
Documentation by Owen Daily and Pernilla Spence