Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.
Performance by Helle Bjerregaard
(drop-in event, no booking required)
Part I: Saturday 17th November 2012, 2.00 - 3.30pm
Part II: Sunday 18th November 2012, 2.00 - 3.00pm
Camden Arts Centre, Arkwright Road, London NW3 6DG
Camden Arts Centre, Arkwright Road, London NW3 6DG
Helle Bjerregaard will be performing in the residency studio using raw clay and the body to explore narratives of the material, making process and residual objects.
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I am preparing for a performance in Camden Arts Centre.The image above is not the Residency Studio, but one of the galleries. The residency studio looks the same, just a bit smaller. The performance is in connection to Phoebe Cummings residency there. She is an artist often working with site-specific installations/sculptures in unfired clay. I have been admiring her works for quite a while, so when she asked me if I wanted to perform, I was naturally thrilled (I still am). So you are hereby invited to come and have a look, I'll be happy to see all of you :-)
While I was preparing, I met the amazing Sophie Westerlind (see her works here) at the Royal College of Art, (during a workshop about Zoo's, which is a story I'll get back to later). Her drawings made a big impact on me. She showed some drawings she had previously done of some performances. Keeping something from the performances is important to me, but I often find it difficult. Drawing could be an interesting approach. Photos are great, but however 'objective' they seem, they are still an interpretation of reality, but in a drawing this interpretation is even further extended.
In my performance, I am treating a topic with artistic decisions, leaving out some things to draw the focus upon others. From my interpretation, her drawings naturally makes yet an interpretation of my interpretation, adding another layer to my performance by reducing it down to its core choosing; what her eye finds essential. Ohh it is going to be exciting to see what will come from that. I’ll write what the performance is about in another post :-)
A snap shot from behind the scene of the preparation taken by Yiru Wang.
While I was preparing, I met the amazing Sophie Westerlind (see her works here) at the Royal College of Art, (during a workshop about Zoo's, which is a story I'll get back to later). Her drawings made a big impact on me. She showed some drawings she had previously done of some performances. Keeping something from the performances is important to me, but I often find it difficult. Drawing could be an interesting approach. Photos are great, but however 'objective' they seem, they are still an interpretation of reality, but in a drawing this interpretation is even further extended.
In my performance, I am treating a topic with artistic decisions, leaving out some things to draw the focus upon others. From my interpretation, her drawings naturally makes yet an interpretation of my interpretation, adding another layer to my performance by reducing it down to its core choosing; what her eye finds essential. Ohh it is going to be exciting to see what will come from that. I’ll write what the performance is about in another post :-)
A snap shot from behind the scene of the preparation taken by Yiru Wang.
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