TACTICAL A.U.

My work could be called sight specific, practical, process driven, in that I work with and within the spaces I am presented with (a cupboard in the Pearce Institute, Glasgow; a room built from re-cycled building materials in Berlin) With each presentation there will be changes and accommodations made. Each ‘performance’ is unique, attempting to blur the line between the time before and after the event itself. I try to leave things open to interpretation and the space itself can be seen as a kind of installation / with the residue of the event open to further interpretation once I have stopped….

Having trained as an artist, but spent much of my working life in the support and development of the arts I find I am in the position of re-emerging as an artist in my early 50‘s....

This is an exciting time for me - a rediscovery of my own creative forces, having consigned them to near-history when “the day job” started to consume all my available time. Asked to present an interpretation of one of my ‘StanSlat” performances from the late 1980‘s as part of the ‘Bodies of Memory’ event at Tate Britain in October 2012 - I found to my surprise that I had missed the energy bound up in performing for myself. I followed this with a brand new performance - “Between Atoms and the Stars” as part of the Arches Live season in September 2013.

My second new work (in this new phase of my artistic career) “Black Hole” (*) has now been performed twice in very different circumstances at Buzzcut Glasgow http://glasgowbuzzcut.wordpress.com/ and MPA-B, Berlin http://www.mpa-b.org/. Both presentations could be considered as ‘whole’ works but also as continuing developments along a given theme as they operated in quite different ways to each other.

Here is a link to a short video made for MOMA, New York, about Month of Performance Art  - Berlin (which features a few shots of my performance).