Prototypes (V/P): Robin Deacon presents a new live performance lecture which continues his obsession with railways and travel. By taking on the role of a researcher, undertaking a spoof civil engineering ‘project’, the artist attempts to rebuild, in model form, a stretch of railway line, as seen from a window in Southall, West London during the 1980’s. Speculating as to what lies outside of this field of vision, there is the suggestion of a ‘theoretical’ terminal station at the other end of the line, as imagined by a young railway enthusiast. But how are the two to be connected today? A visit is made to a model railway fair to seek expert advice. PROTOTYPES is concerned with the interconnection of architecture, memory, location, travel, the passage of time, and the process of ageing.
Stuart Sherman (V/T): This presentation is part of a burgeoning research project about the late American performance artist Stuart Sherman (1945 – 2001). A key figure in experimental performance practices in New York during the late 1970s, Sherman is an important and (in my opinion) an under exposed figure in the history of performance art. Described by one writer as ‘the Buster Keaton of linguistics’, Sherman is also an artist who has influenced me profoundly, with much of my own work referencing his unique approach and sensibility; in the case of my early performances, sometimes explicitly. Since 2006, I have been undertaking a series of research projects that aim to bring Sherman’s work to the wider audience that it deserves. This project originated from an Artists Residency at Camden Arts Centre in 2006, and a series of re-enacted performances of Sherman’s works presented at the Cardiff Art in Time Festival (University of Wales Institute, Cardiff, 2007) and the South London Gallery (2007). Currently, research is being undertaken to contribute towards the production of a documentary film on Sherman’s life and works.
Key: V - Video / P - Performance / T - Talk
Approximating the Art of Stuart Sherman 2007
Prototypes 2006 - 2008
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Whatever Happened
to Colin Powell? (P)
5 July 2008: Live Brits ll: Hebel Am Ufer, Berlin, Germany
Stuart Sherman
(P/T)
21 June 2008: Whitstable Biennale, UK
Dispatches
(P)
25 - 27 June 2008: IETM Satellite Meeting, Project Arts
Centre, Dublin, Ireland
Whatever Happened
to Colin Powell? (P)
16 & 17 May 2008: NDSM, Amsterdam, Holland
Whatever Happened
to Colin Powell?: Documentation (V)
25 - 30 March 2008: Live Art Unpacked, Khoj Live ‘08,
Delhi, India
Prototypes
(P)
29 February & 1 March 2008: Kunstlerhaus Mousonturm,
Frankfurt, Germany
Whatever Happened
to Colin Powell?: Documentation (V)
5 – 15 March 2008: Live Art Unpacked, Centre d'Art
Contemporain Genève, Switzerland
Whatever Happened
to Colin Powell? (P)
12 March 2008: Oxford Brookes University, Oxford, UK
Whatever
Happened to Colin Powell? (P)
4 March 2008: Phoenix Arts Centre, Exeter, UK
Approximating
the Art Stuart Sherman (T/P)
22 February 2008, Roehampton
University, London, UK
What is a
Performance Artist? (V)
26 November 2007: Digitalizar lo EFIMERO, Alcala de Henares,
Cuenca, Madrid, Spain
What is a
Performance Artist? (V)
25 - 30 November 2007: Faculty of Fine Arts, Cuenca, Spain
What is a
Performance Artist? (V)
24 November 2007: Casa Encendida, Madrid, Spain
What is a
Performance Artist? (V)
20 - 23 November 2007: Videofronteras: University of Alcala
de Henares, Madrid, Spain
Nothing Gets
Done/Words in my Mouth (V)
7 October - 18 November 2007: Yes, Yes, Y’all, Hastings
Museum and Art Gallery, UK
Whatever Happened
to Colin Powell?: Documentation (V)
6 October 2007: Bodily Functions/Live Art Unpacked: Granary
Theatre, Cork, Ireland
Whatever
Happened to Colin Powell? (P)
27 – 30 September 2007: The Artist as Opinion Leader,
Estate De Horst, Utrecht, Netherlands
Stuart Sherman
(P)
30 June 2007: OMSK Book Launch, South London Gallery, UK
Prototypes
(P)
13 – 14 June 2007: Artsadmin Summer Season, Toynbee Hall, London,
UK
Re-Sensitised
Symposium (T)
Saturday 12 May 2007: Nottingham Trent University, Nottingham,
UK
Presence
and Absence in Live Art Practice (T)
Saturday 17 March 2007: Current Thinking, Tate Modern,
London, UK
Stuart Sherman
(P/T)
16 March 2007: Cardiff Art In Time Festival, University
of Wales Institute, Cardiff, UK
Whatever
Happened to Colin Powell? (P)
9 March 2007: Performing Rights Vienna, Tanzquartier Wein,
Vienna, Austria