Night chant
Screening Zikha Auditorium, Whitechapel Gallery
Performance and Politics in 1970’s Symposium
Night Chant is a short video completed as part of the residency in the Foyle Reading Room at Whitechapel Gallery, and shown in the Zikha Auditorium. It contemplates the open arena and shared communication that performance practice offered, particularly to women artists in the 1970’s. During 2013/14 five contemporaries of mine, Monica Ross, Rose Finn-Kelcey, Alexis Hunter, Sue Arrowsmith and Rita Harris, women artists I have known since 1970’s, died. All of them had used performance as a vehicle in their practice and all appear in the archives in the Foyle Reading Rooms. The work had begun in Finland with the first part The Shivering, a communication with Monica Ross and then extended into ‘conversations’ with the other four artists.
Night chant
Screening Zikha Auditorium, Whitechapel Gallery
Performance and Politics in 1970’s Symposium
Night Chant is a short video completed as part of the residency in the Foyle Reading Room at Whitechapel Gallery, and shown in the Zikha Auditorium. It contemplates the open arena and shared communication that performance practice offered, particularly to women artists in the 1970’s. During 2013/14 five contemporaries of mine, Monica Ross, Rose Finn-Kelcey, Alexis Hunter, Sue Arrowsmith and Rita Harris, women artists I have known since 1970’s, died. All of them had used performance as a vehicle in their practice and all appear in the archives in the Foyle Reading Rooms. The work had begun in Finland with the first part The Shivering, a communication with Monica Ross and then extended into ‘conversations’ with the other four artists.