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Day 3 of workshop with Alastair Maclennan - the shoes are off….
[collective] Member Andre Verrisimo performs as part of the Alaistair Maclenan workshops happening here at our HeadQuarters in ]performance s p a c e [, Hackney Wick: Go follow! Go Andre!
…Our boy’s got some great balancing skills there…
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The heightened physical nature of Goat Island’s work and it’s ambiguous formal status perturbs categorisation. It’s hard to locate this work as dance (a label the company reject), though it is certainly choreographed movement. In Earthquake, the formal status of this movement, is even further undermined by Goat Island’s explicit copying of multiple but minute sequences from the work of...
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[DRY RUN # 14]
…brick down…
…mass smash…
…mess wound…
…We are the wall…
…We…Are…The…Wall…
[Notes from Andre’s Exercise Book from DRY RUN #14]
Using this mortar, Andre covered the length of his forearms. We imagine a [collective] group ritual of grinding, dampening, covering and smoothing the fine powder onto our...
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[DRY RUN # 14]
[Becoming Wall…We Are The Walls]
…grind…ground…dust…water…mash into skin…
…solid again…we are the wall…
[Notes from Andre’s Exercise Book from DRY RUN #14]
Taking some of the bricks from the boundary walls of our performance site, we began to create our ‘mortar’ from the powder grit of ground London...
SUIT (2009 - 2010) SUIT encompasses an on-going series of sound-based works with a self-built PVC performance overall, which is equipped with a loudspeaker, and sensors that register the performer’s heart movements and the humidity inside the suit. A Doppler heart sensor, humidity sensor and a 7’’ loudspeaker were installed in a commercially available rain suit for go-kart drivers. The suit causes...
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(via BRITISH PROFESSIONAL RUNNING)
Crowds at the Hackney Wick Stadium. Start of the 100 yards race. Four runners run towards the camera. Winner, Willie MacFarlane of Glasgow, breaks the tapes. Winner receives the trophy from a girl. Start of the half mile race. Several shots of the runners racing. Winner, Duffy (sp?) of Scotland, breaks the tapes.
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