Purfleet

The performance had a title, a time and place but nothing changed at the designated time/place at which it was meant to start. I continued chatting with the people I was engaged with. Life simply continued. What was this space? A heterotopia? What were we creating together?

The text I wrote below formed part of the initial announcement for this work:

The more provocative and stimulating position is not that ’everyone is an artist’ but ’no-one is an artist’ and that the ‘art’ space is implicitly part of living.

This undefined, open, permissive exploration that art claims then becomes part of the everyday.

Art and life lose the disjuncture by declaring oneself an A-artist.

Too many art end-games have played out for over a century and there now has to be a real shift.