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Comment on What A Lot Of Gliter! A review of work by artist Laura Petty by Jon

Jon — Sat, 15 Oct 2011 00:47:45 +0000

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Comment on Boyish Charm! A review of Ben Swails’ ‘Circuit Board Diagram of a Robot from my Childhood’ by Adrien

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Comment on Guster Slendervalve and the séance of dead poets. A performance by Max Avery by PMD

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Comment on Review of ‘The Life and Death of Marina Abramović’ By Claire Prosser by Fred Nicholas

Fred Nicholas — Mon, 19 Sep 2011 12:56:08 +0000

hey Claire, thanks for sending this in, I feel like I have a real sense of what you saw and can piece together the kind of experience it was from my own time spent watching various theatre and performance based shows. Having seen some of the clips, I would have liked to have seen it, I love the sometimes strange and visceral nature of theatre, dance shows, musicals and off other the wall stuff.
But when looking at it I can’t help thinking of the similarities to the spoof performance artist, Vulva played by David Walliams in the cult Chanel 4 comedy Tv series ‘SPACED’ staring Simon Pegg. He/she was is this very pretentious and egotistical artist who performed ridiculously over the top and absurd stage shows.

I think that this type is exactly the crap people think of when they ask me what type of art I make and I replied ‘performance based stuff’. I mean there is a level to which stuff you or I do is a strange or absurd way to spend our time, but it stems from a grounded, logical line of thought and doesn’t pretend to be ‘deep’ with significant or profound ‘meaning’. Not that I don’t find those things in your work, but its genuine and is what it is. You see what you see. I think its important that as a performer/maker you aren’t really any different to the audience, they can relate.

I think living your life as ground breaking performance art has got to lead to being quite change, quite different and some what removed from more ‘normal’ or less radical states of human existence.
I admire her, but much of her work leaves me alienated.

fredx

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