Louise Curham and Lucas Ihlein – Australia
A chapter I wrote about our 2007 re-enactment of Anthony McCall’s Long Film for Ambient Light has been included in the book Perform Repeat Record: Live Art in History, edited by Amelia Jones and Adrian Heathfield. You can check out the book here. Louise Curham and I were really pleased to be involved in this …
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TLC workshop Monday 27 April 2009 – Working towards a re-creation of Guy Sherwin’s Man with Mirror. Chronology 10.35 am Lucas collects Louise from Central. 10.45 am arrive Petersham. Discussed contribution of new iteration given Guy is still performing this work – discussed the value of ‘slips’ in our iteration, and the significance of transmission …
To view these larger go to Flickr, see TLC 01 and TLC 02.
The discussion had two starters. One was the Val conversation re-cap which appears below. Secondly, Lucas discovered the curious picture plane fracture that the mirror introduces in the photos taken in the garden in our last meeting. The mirror appears in each photo of the measuring-up images. It is striking only in one where the …
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Measuring Up: Illustrating this comment and this page of sketches and calculations, I’m posting these photos to show how we worked out the relative dimensions of the mirror/screen. Not very complicated! Lucas’ armspan (188cm) was assumed to be similar to Guy’s – thus, we reasoned, Lucas would use a “full-size” mirror of 24X32 inches (61X81.3cm). …
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Yesterday we started to prep ourselves to actually shoot the work. We looked very closely at the preview material – Lux preview tape, Lyn’s documentation on YouTube, the rough ‘telecine’ we made up in Brisbane from Guy’s actual film strip literally minutes before he used it for his performance. We also found part of the …
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Louise and I have finally begun the practical work of re-enacting Guy Sherwin’s Man with Mirror (1976-2009). We’ve been looking and thinking about this work for several years now. In August 2008 we spent some time with Guy, when he came to Australia. We saw him performing the piece in Brisbane, and we had a …
Thoughts in haste from today: 1. An important aspect of Guy’s method and point of connection for Curham seems to be open curiosity; discovering through doing; at outset don’t know outcome; finding/discovering work/image with camera in hand. Railings for example seems a study of what will happen if? The if is printing the image which …
Some information I have discovered while here in Yokohama: MIACA – Moving Image Archive of Contemporary Art http://www.miaca.org/english/news/index.html Videoart Center, Tokyo http://www.vctokyo.org/j/about/ (Japanese – Google for a web page translation Japanese to English) Art Autonomy Network http://www.a-a-n.org/top_e.htm And for the Expanded Cinema heads, Jun’ichi OKUYAMA For example: Cut-Off movie, 1969 16mm 9min. A film 9 …