L - Luke Guy
F - Fay Burnett
L: When does the spectator become performer? How is that enacted? When someone participates. I think that is very similar to what I’m doing in a material, object way. Yours is people. How does that person/this object do that?
F: Between the two pillars: between the real pillars and the fake pillars. The fake pillars are the actors; the pillars I have made - they are acting like pillars. With them being present, the focus is put on the other pillars [the real pillars] which enforces them [the real pillars] to be the actors, because your attention is drawn to the real pillars.
Pillars (I&II)
MDF
240 × 34 × 33cm
L: Two people sitting down having a discussion. Wherever you can sit becomes a stage. Wherever you can position yourself within a space, becomes the stage. We could make anything into a stage, anything.
F: The stage is then a social construct.
F: In an exhibition you are exhibiting what you have done. Maybe there should be a new word…
L: Because this is an exhibition of putting ideas into play - thinking, do these work? Do these not work?
A Stage
60cm × 100 × 90cm
F: Yeah. It relates back to my initial research of this word ‘per-formance’. P-e-r-forming means ‘through form’ - you are realising whilst doing it. It’s like this whole week has been a performance between you, me and the objects. Everything has been performing. It’s been a live event. Everything has been changing all the time - for me, that is a performance. Even though you weren’t present in the space with me as such, you were there with me in mind, and we would talk about it afterwards. Every day there was something new - we were talking about research as performance [and conversation as artwork]. It’s been a week long performance actually, not really an exhibition.
L: It would be interesting to form a new word. There must be a word for that.
F: We could take another word. It’s a Live Event.
Think With Me
plaster, bicycle inner tubing, football bladder.
180 (varying)× 25 × 25cm
Bottle On A Broom Loads
Avionics, Kingston Upon Thames
19-23rd Feb 2018
Collaborative exhibition, works by Fay Burnett and Luke Guy.
Luke reshuffled the position of the objects in the exhibition as a daily routine. Fay did a series of daily, unscheduled performances in the space, each lasting around 2 hours, and occurring whenever was convenient within her day. Planned documentation of these performances was not organised, any photos of the performances were collected from viewers of the exhibition.
4 performances:
Day 1: Being the performer - improvising movement and speech, reacting to Luke’s writing.
Day 2: Watching the people as if they are the performers.
Day 3: Being a pillar.
Day 4: Collaboration as a performance - a conversation with Fay Burnett & Luke Guy.