Notes for a Performance
Performance, Exhibition, Publication (2017 – 2019)
Performances and Exhibition: The Tetley, Leeds (2017), Tample Bar Gallery, Dublin (2018), and Holden Gallery, Manchester School of Art (2019).
Publication: Notes for a Performance—Final Draft and Notes for a Performance - W eather Permitting Wild Pansy Press, The University of Leeds
Image credit: Photographers Jonathan Purcell & Louis Haugh
Holden Gallery Interruptions Link
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The research project Notes for a Performance - including Notes for a Performance - Weather Permitting, Notes for a Performance - Revisioing a Smoky Meeting and Notes for a Performance - Revisioning a Ritual - was informed by a series of artist residencies, working with historical collections, archives and heritage sites.
Residencies included:
Accompanying all the performances where publications published by Wild Pansy press and the University of Leeds.
The publications have been exhibited at artist book fairs including PAGES: ARCHIVE, The Tetley Leeds, New Voices, Malmö KonsthallSweden, PRINTed#5 The Tetley Leeds, and Espai Barra, Barcelona.
Residencies included:
•Artist in Resident at The Tetley – working with West Yorkshire Archive Service – Leeds.
•The Portico Library - Manchester.
•Extreme Views Artist in Resident at Art Gene working with South Lakes Archive Service - Cumbria
The resultant performances re-imagined the overlooked and uncatalogued, presenting a ficto-factual reading of the past.
The resultant performances re-imagined the overlooked and uncatalogued, presenting a ficto-factual reading of the past.
Accompanying all the performances where publications published by Wild Pansy press and the University of Leeds.
The publications have been exhibited at artist book fairs including PAGES: ARCHIVE, The Tetley Leeds, New Voices, Malmö KonsthallSweden, PRINTed#5 The Tetley Leeds, and Espai Barra, Barcelona.
Notes for a Performance - Revisioning a Smoky Meeting
Performance, Exhibition, Publication (2017 – 2019)
Performances and Exhibition: The Tetley, Leeds (2017), Tample Bar Gallery, Dublin (2018), and Holden Gallery, Manchester School of Art (2019).
Duration: 25:00
Publication: Notes for a Performance—Final Draft, Wild Pansy Press, The University of Leeds
Image credit: Photographers Jonathan Purcell & Louis Haugh
Holden Gallery Interruptions Link
Notes for a Performance - Re-Visioning a Smoky Meeting was the culmination of a six-month artist residency at the Tetley in Leeds.
Working with The Tetley’s (uncatalogued) corporate archive this work focused on performance art practice as a means of embodying heritage sites and historical collections. The performance challenged fixed historic chronology by acknowledging the impossibility of understanding historical collections, asserting that any reading of the past can only be understood in the present and embodied ‘now’.
Working with The Tetley’s (uncatalogued) corporate archive this work focused on performance art practice as a means of embodying heritage sites and historical collections. The performance challenged fixed historic chronology by acknowledging the impossibility of understanding historical collections, asserting that any reading of the past can only be understood in the present and embodied ‘now’.
Notes for a Performance - Weather Permitting
Performance, Exhibition, Publication (2018 - 2019)
Audio Transmission
Notes for a Performance – Weather Permitting was the culmination of a four-month ‘Extreme Views’ artist residency at Art Gene, South Lakes.
Working with the Furness Amateur Radio Society (FARS), Summits on the Airwaves (SOTA), and Barrow and South Lakes Archive Service Weather Permitting was concerned with heritage and landscape, mapping, topography, and contemporary understandings of nationhood.
Notes for a Performance – Weather Permitting, was performed and simultaneously transmitted (FARS and SOTA) from the summits of Black Combe, Hodbarrow Point, and Birkrigg Common on Sunday, 17th of March 2019.
Accompanying the performance was a publication published by Wild Pansy Press, University of Leeds, featuring the original performance script in text and braille format alongside a compendium of research and performance documentation.
Working with the Furness Amateur Radio Society (FARS), Summits on the Airwaves (SOTA), and Barrow and South Lakes Archive Service Weather Permitting was concerned with heritage and landscape, mapping, topography, and contemporary understandings of nationhood.
Notes for a Performance – Weather Permitting, was performed and simultaneously transmitted (FARS and SOTA) from the summits of Black Combe, Hodbarrow Point, and Birkrigg Common on Sunday, 17th of March 2019.
Accompanying the performance was a publication published by Wild Pansy Press, University of Leeds, featuring the original performance script in text and braille format alongside a compendium of research and performance documentation.
Notes for a Performance— Revisioning a Ritual
Performance, Exhibition, and Publication (2017)
Performance and Exhibition: The Portico Library, Manchester (2017)
Duration: 00:20
Publication: Made in Translation, Manchester Metropolitan University, ISBN 0-9519168-4-X
Performance Script: Nikolai Duffy Image Credits: David Penny
Notes for a Performance - Revisioning a Ritual was performed as part of the collaborative project Made in Translation at the Portico Library. Made in Translation explored the library and its content as a source of inspiration for new collaborative works.
