I will be presenting an early work-in-progress of a new work at an Art Salon at The Green House N16 on Wednesday, 3 December 2014.
BIBLIOCLASM is a new work that draws one thread from my previously-performed piece KINDLING - that of banned books. This performance will be a rebooted version of KINDLING and will usefully contribute to the development of the new work as bolder new performance ideas are brought into play.
This will be a group performance in which naked readers inhabit a space and read books that have been banned at some point in history. Not only read books but read aloud, giving voice to the ideas, truths and narratives that have (at some point and maybe still) given actual or imagined offence to presiding authorities, usually on the basis of sexual morality, politics or religion - but not always...
http://www.banned-books.org.uk/all
BIBLIOCLASM is a new work that draws one thread from my previously-performed piece KINDLING - that of banned books. This performance will be a rebooted version of KINDLING and will usefully contribute to the development of the new work as bolder new performance ideas are brought into play.
This will be a group performance in which naked readers inhabit a space and read books that have been banned at some point in history. Not only read books but read aloud, giving voice to the ideas, truths and narratives that have (at some point and maybe still) given actual or imagined offence to presiding authorities, usually on the basis of sexual morality, politics or religion - but not always...
http://www.banned-books.org.uk/all