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Live Art - select highlights - Thomas John Bacon

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Traces of Being - new video footage

Though this footage is of lower res than the previously released blood work footage it does include further highlights from this 30 minute performance.  

Traces of Being was designed to alternately engage with both a meditative & destructive sense of existence; the connection between body, a projection of Being and a ritualistic process of stripping away layers of a multiplict Self. 

The soundscape is mixed live by the composer; a base track combines with recently captured aural elements (representing nuances of Self, acting as a current commentary on the three actions) thus enhancing the emphasis of change and constant flux of Being. 

No one performance is the same and this is repeated in the sense of how the body uniquely traverses Identity, Existence, Object in each performance. A journey that is enhanced as the body passes through a life-giving/preservering/pertrifying salt traveling from what initially may of developed from a wrestled/censored Identity and into the Existence & Object.

NOTE: A large element that is missing from this document is the process of travel as the blind body traverses the space.

Featured Footage: Seven Arts, Leeds. Photos: Act Art 8, London & Whips, Leeds.

Soundscape created by Sardonik Grin (Lleywn Maire); for more information visit: www.panzen.net/grin

Further footage coming soon

I am currently working on pulling together other further footage to make a short montage of the Traces of Being performance at Whips in Leeds, UK. Please check back in a week or so for an update ... x

Traces of Being - Thomas John Bacon - blood work excerpt - HD QUALITY

The following footage is taken from a 30 minute performance.  It is not suitable for those of a sensitive nature

Whips: a Glorious Trauma Fundraiser

A rare opportunity to see a work in progress performance by Thomas John Bacon collaborating with Llewyn Maire for the first time has emerged. The work will be shown on the 26th March as part of the Whips night at Seven Arts. An inspiring evening filled with exciting new work, including pieces by Nick Kilby and Taylor Le Fin. There will also be the opportunity for Q & A and an art auction. Entry is based on donation and all proceeds go to help raise funds for the future Glorious Trauma festival programme.




To find Seven Arts visit : http://t.co/ttfz15t




More information will follow shortly.