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If Not For You Then Who: In-Progress Esssays on Fear & Desire_
Date 15th August 2008 - 16th August 2008
Tags performance, sound, video art, live art, adelaide
…somewhere between love and death we find ourselves in empty spaces, losing control…
Throughout 2008, Fiona Sprott and Jason Sweeney are creating a series of explicit confessional texts, micro-films, blog entries and sonic responses that expose the artists’ failures at intimacies, confronting moments of fear, sacrifice, desire and pain - constructed or otherwise. With in-progress live performance ‘reports’, screenings, installations, texts and sound works, some dangerous admissions will emerge and the line between private versus public information will be crossed.
Jason Sweeney and Fiona Sprott have been working together as writer/researchers, performance-makers and media-making artists since 1993. They have always maintained a commitment to flexible performance and ‘public’ outcomes for their work, and as such, this project will deliberately set out to create a mess of ideas, an overload of performative and artistic provocations, textual, sonic and visual excess, which are all anchored in the ways in which we tell our stories to others, and develop intimacy in an era of globalisation.
FRIDAY 15 + SATURDAY 16 AUGUST.
AT: HEADQUARTERS STUDIO
1st FLOOR, 15 KINGSTON AVENUE, RICHMOND, SA
WHEN: 7:30PM (40 minute performance followed by 20 minute open discussion)
A FREE EVENT.
To attend email jason (at) unreasonablefilms.com
Film content contains: Some coarse language, Nudity, Adult themes, Strobe effects.
The development of this project is supported through the Government of South Australia through Arts SA.
This version presented as part of the SALA Festival 2008.
Websites
http://www.ifnotforyouthenwho.com
http://www.unreasonablefilms.com
