Two videos pivoting representation

Listen to MAKING IT SOUND LIKE I AM MAKING ART FOR FIFTEEN MINUTES

If you missed me making it sound like I was making art for fifteen minutes on Resonance FM the other week, you can hear it again below. It was originally broadcast on November 16th as part of the antepress art writing programme Digestives.

My next Digestives programme isn’t until early February. In the meantime here’s a sneak preview of what I’m looking at in preparation:

Tamarin is talking very FAST

Rachel Lois Clapham and Alex Eisenberg documented today’s 10 Performances event with a live feed they updated throughout the day. By the time my performance What To Do begins they’re halfway down their third page. I love their occasional attempts to type out variations on everything I was saying. You can read what they’ve written here.

The text of What To Do is available to download as a pdf from the 10 Performances website, but I’m not sure I recommend you read it: the effect of reading the text on a page or a screen is very different from the effect of the performance itself.

10 Performances

Tomorrow I’m performing a revised version of my illustrated talk What To Do as part of the Beyond Text 10 Performances event. The event lasts all day, and as we contribute our performances details of each one will be posted online here, so you can watch the event unfold even if you can’t be there on the day. An archive of the day will remain on the site afterwards.

Here’s an outline from the site:

10 Performances is a text-based performance project exploring the nature of performative writing and its relation to the staged event of performance. Five established international artists and five UK-based postgraduate artists will contribute one written work each.

Domes Without Looking

I’m practising for the 26th.

MAKING IT SOUND LIKE I AM MAKING ART FOR 15 MINUTES

Resonance fm is broadcasting a new audio work of mine this afternoon as part of Digestives, the ongoing art writing radio series from antepress. It’s going to be be aired on today at 4:30pm and repeated Friday 20 November at 7:30pm.

You can listen live by clicking the ‘Listen Now’ mp3 stream at www.resonancefm.com, or tune in to 104.4fm inside London. Afterwards it will be available to download as a podcast at www.antepress.co.uk/digestives.php.

Describing Genuine Smiles

This evening I’m going to describe to some friends the following work, which is the same work that appears in the diagram I drew last week. We won’t be able to put the work into practice because we’ll be at someone’s home and we won’t be able to draw lines all over its walls, and so once I’ve described the work as it should be, we’re going to try to find ways of replicating its effect but within the constraints of the domestic space: no lines on the walls, no lines on the floors.

Genuine Smiles uses a faint pencil line in place of writing – an attenuated, quietened form of language drawn between signified and signifier: between the thing described and the description of it. But once the line is drawn, the thing it started from isn’t there any more.

A sheet of paper of any size is attached to one internal wall of the cube, and attached just above it is a long piece of string

Genuine Smiling

The Real Experiment

Allan Kaprow again. One characteristic of the lifelike art that was emerging in the sixties:

“Various performative modes became the effective way to deal with this shift to the actual environment. Performing was doing something, not acting in theater – moving furniture, for example, just to do it, or because you were changing apartments.”

The Real Experiment (1983)

I’ll say the people holding it