New generation

New Generation was commissioned by Rob Le Frenais and Live Art Development Agency to celebrate the launch of the online archive of Performance Magazine at the British Library. It was a two part piece, one part live action where I interacted with guests in a comical ghost outfit made out of painting canvas. I silently inhabited the venue for the entire duration of the event. Sometimes I brushed past people as they chatted and drank, sometimes I stood still and unexpectedly dropped a large stone I was carrying against my belly under my costume, other times I continually span on the spot, off to one side. The other part of the work was a performance to camera, specifically a performance by my tongue. The latter was screened at the launch and later uploaded onto a dedicated website by Live Art Development Agency. New Generation was an annunciation of the potential awaiting the world via the ‘live artists yet to come’ - a future creativity which all the radical energy documented in Performance Magazine Online is still actively fuelling. The delivery of the piece was specific and physical yet somehow also anonymous. This was because the work sought to connect and transmit all the bodies, memories, skills and commitment to live art that were in the room on the night of the launch whilst allowing the space of the ‘unthought’ (that which encompasses past, present and future tenses) a place within the throng of it all.