The Eagle Document - Live Performance 2010
Live performance
Duration: 35 min.
Live performance
Duration: 35 min.
The Eagle Document was an ongoing research project now consisting of various manifestations. Stage one The Eagle Document – Performance, took place at the James Hockey and Foyer Galleries on September 14th 2007. Combining modern dance, performance art and falconry display, the live performance was choreographed to sound tracks by the experimental band Bender. Stage two of The Eagle Document culminated in a multi-screen projection installation for a solo exhibition at the James Hockey and Foyer Galleries in 2008.
The live performance was recorded with two cameras from different vantage points and produced as a two channel video installation titled The Eagle Performance - Document 2008. |
The work is inspired by Marcel Broodthaers’ Musée d’Art Moderne, a critical commentary on art objects and the museum at the end of the modernist period. The body of work originated with the live event which examined notions of liveness, performativity and the document in the context of the diagrammatic space of the gallery. Far from signifying symbolically, the work utilises the eagle as object/prop and performative method.
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