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LIve Art Performances
The Slaughterhouse, Royal William Yard
Plymouth, free entry

Friday 22 January 5 – 9pm
Saturday 23 January 5 – 9pm
Sunday 24 January 2– 6pm

Plymouth Arts Centre and the Marina Abramović Institute present a weekend of sensational live art performance at Royal William Yard and Plymouth City Market. Join us at Royal William Yard 22 – 24 January to see what everyone is talking about...

This is the first curatorial project of the Marina Abramović Institute. Marina Abramović has pioneered performance art for over four decades on an international scale. Her major retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, opens in March 2010.

Live Performances

The live artworks by international artists at The Slaughterhouse, Royal William Yard, include a jaw-dropping choral performance by Plymouth’s Complaints Choir, devised by artists Tellervo and Oliver Kochta-Kalleinen. The choir sing complaints from the people of Plymouth.

Snezana Golubović, a member of Marina Abramovic’s former Independent Performance Group, re-enacts her performance/installation LOVE STEPS, 2007, first presented at the group exhibition Body & Eros at the 5th International Dance Festival at the Venice Biennale. The artist moves through the space, wearing each pair of shoes and creating what she describes as a dance that memorialises the personal experiences of each pair’s owner.

Eva and Franco Mattes (a.k.a. www.0100101110101101.org) are pioneers in the Internet-based net.art movement. For the exhibition, the artists stage what they term Synthetic Performances in the virtual world of Second Life. Through their avatars, the Italian-born artists will ‘remix’ and freely reinterpret famous works from the performance-art canon, including Yves Klein’s Leap into the Void (1960).

The Turin-born artist Davide Balliano takes inspiration from a poem by Cesare Pavese, Death Will Come and Will Have Your Eyes, found on the Italian writer’s desk following his suicide in 1950. Balliano stands facing the corner of a room where two mirrors converge, sharpening knives.

Directly engaging with the issue of preservation, the Performance Re-enactment Society with Hugo Glendinning form an archive of recollections of live art events. On the final day of the symposium the Society re-stage these memories to create a photographic installation and an exhibition tour of remembered works.

Francesca Steele is a British artist based in Plymouth whose work uses her own body — physical, psychological and biological — to articulate what cannot be said in words. Her performance Routine develops her recent practice of bodybuilding, which has transformed her physique. Over three days of endurance, she performs the compulsory poses required for competitive bodybuilding, in proximity to the viewer.

Image above: Francesca Steele, Routine, 2010, photo: Simon Keitch

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