Spill National Platform 2009

Spill National Platform 2009

Spill National Platform 2009

Charts three projects by performers who generate autobiographical writing by walking through inspirational landscapes.

This item is referenced in the Making Routes Study Room Guide (P1964).

Based on a reproduction of original choreographic material of Le Sacre du Printemps and the personal story of Nijinsky, Liquid Loft, together with dancers of Les Ballets de Monte Carlo, stage impressive Ready Mades, by rediscovering them as containers of bygone choreographic intentions in a changed context, weaving them into contemporary structures.
Dance as an imitation of change; the sacrifice as an instrument of equalization through retaliation against the innocent. These are the archaic means of mimetic practice in this performance.

For over 20 years Marina Abramović has collected materials from film, dance, theatre, music, rituals and performance. For her lecture at Live Culture she wound through a personal visual archive of performance related materials focused around the performing body, its mental and physical limits.This documentation has since been presented with the permission of the artist as part of the Performance Matters, Performing Idea, Performance Lecture Archive; an interactive video archive housed at the Whitechapel Gallery between 2-9 October 2010. The archive looked at examples of the performance lecture as a form of artistic and critical expression and its potential to address a broad range of cultural issues and philosophical ideas.

Performance documentation, 2010.

The performer marks a sacred space. She dons a Raven headdress. As she steps into the sacred space she begins a ritual of transformation.

An interview with Ron Athey about his past and practice, commissioned by the ICA. This item is part of the Study Room Guide on Performance, Politics, Ethics and Human Rights by Adrien Sina (P0661)

Margate’s First Beaux Arts Ball

Residing somewhere between fiction and documentary, the film shows firefighters practising their skills on a tall purpose built house in a fire station.