Notes on action i

This will be the least formed and roughest work I have shown to date.  It will also be the first piece I have shown that does not have some form of Butoh in it.  That is not to say that subsequent actions in the series of three won't nor that this action will cease to develop or change but what you will see will be a huge key change for me from my work of the past 5 years.

Traces of Being: Action I - Identity

Establishing the body in space.... Establishing existence of Being... Establishing change... 

multiples of self are seen as layers are exposed, projected, removed, concealed, censored and torn away

a simplistic yet very personal piece - exposing the artists' struggle with his own existence, identity and depression

Action I - Identity will be shown under the Traces of Being banner title at Act Art 8: Censored on July 9th @10:30pm

Act Art runs from 8pm to 4am and tickets can be bought via this LINK


this performance is shown as a work in progress

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Passion creates and passion destroys.

ACTION I: Identity

M. Heidgger said, "The artist is the origin of the work. The work is the origin of the artist. Neither is without the other... As necessarily as the artist is the origin of the work in a different way, than the work is the origin of the artist, so it is equally certain that, in a still different way, art is the origin of both artist and work. But can art be an origin at all? Where and how does art occur? ...Do works and art exist only because art exists as their origin?"  This is central  to exploration of  the Traces of Being series, in which Identity will be the first action to be shown as part of Act Art 8.  

I am creating a series of actions that seek to progressively enquire towards the proof of presence or Being and how it may either falter or be found in a state of flux when examined & challenged.  

This initial action focuses upon the identity of a multiplicit-Self.  An oxymoron in of itself if read on a binary level but rather challenges the conceptual realising of a singular and looks at the evolution of the many through the course of the action.  This then runs in tandem with the evolution of the work which when presented as a whole alongside subsequent actions will test the existence of Being: potentially proving presence of the Body as both artist and artefact in the moment of action.  

This first action inparticular works also to act as commentary on the censoring of identity and the artists' own personal struggle with the projection of image and the challenge of his own being while dealing with depression.

This performance will be shown during the Act Art 8 event @ 10:30pm  in the Islington Metal Works (stage 1 floor level - back room ground floor).  Click HERE for tickets.  

Kazuo Ohno passes away

Kazuo Ohno died of respiratory failure June 1, 2010, at 4:38 pm (JST), in Japan at the Yokohama Sen-in Hoken Hospital in Yokohama City, at the age of 103.  

Thank you for everything you have given me and given the world.  I will continue to look beyond the visible.  I will attempt to embrace the universe.  

"I'm looking up at the sky.  Well, then, at what am I looking?  Am I facing the sky?  No, I'm not; I'm not looking at anything at all.  I'm now facing the ground.  When I'm looking down in that direction, am I looking at the ground below me?  No, I'm not looking at anything at all.  What's going on?  It seems that my inner life has been completely demolished.  

Well in that case, am I out of my mind?  No, I'm no madman.  Is madness creeping up on me then?  Though by no means out my mind, I still want to plunge into an irrational world whenever I gaze around me.  Whenever I look upward, face downward, or stare right in front of me I want to be able to plunge into an irrational world.  

While it's not inconceivable that human intelligence is an out-growth of madness, madness could never spring forth from the intellect.  If at all possible, I would like you to explore what lies at the root of madness.  In gazing up at the sky, look beyond the visible.  We should feel that your eyes are embracing the entire universe."

- Kazuo Ohno 

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