Images of Group II
Kiki Taira
Benjamin Sebastian
Jenna Finch
All image of (tension/intervention/restraint) 27/11/10 are shared property of the artist(s) depicted and Steven Kenny Photography.
(c)2010
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- Benjamin Sebastian
- Tension, Intervention and Restraint explores fluid boundaries between concept, action, reception and reaction. It will be an evening of live art in which six performance artists will explore the potential of spontaneity in relation to each other and the audience through durational performances. Following principals of contact improvisation, the artists shall commence actions individually and spontaneously yet by nature of the performances and rules (created for and by each individual artist) to govern their respective works, the artists will establish an environment in which their output will inevitably clash and/or bleed into that of the others while maintaining a certain and real tension between the individual, the other and the group. The audience are free to engage with the performance(s) in any way they like, to wander around the artists, to touch them or be touched, to drink, talk, stand, sit quietly or not. Boundaries can, do and shall fall down. The event opens the possibility for spontaneity and hopes to question just how blanketing a set of rules can be, and at what point can or must they be broken?