A Dying Artist
22 April 2011 - 23 April 2011
A Dying Artist is an Easter weekend in four parts featuring performances, round table discussions, readings, music and screenings exploring materiality, corporeality, death and dying bodies in art. Highlights include Professor Steven Connor's lecture A Certain Convocation of Politic Worms, a performance of Sprey: A Narrow Vehicle by Trouble (off-shoot group of Brooklyn’s ZS), Matthew Barney's rarely seen first film Scab Action, spoken word from Heather Phillipson, David Toop’s The Act of Listening is an Act of Dying, experimental film from the Stan Brakhage archives plus live music from Raime, Old Appartus and Chora.
