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Collaboration with Manuel Vason  2010 to present

In the core of my practice lies an exchange; between myself and another artist, between the work and the viewer. I see myself reflected in all the artists I have met, collaborated and fallen in love with…

Manuel Vason
Images: Co-created by Manuel Vason and group members (see below)
    
Documentation or Image?

Manuel's art bridges photography and performance. He began his investigations as a documenter of performance works, but has evolved far beyond that to question the relationship of the 'live' to the document and to the various possibilities for 'audiencing' the work.

What 'the work' is and where it really resides, is a luscious and productive question which relates to concepts explored during my Performance Studies degree at the University of Sydney. In this paradigm, the emphasis had already moved from documenting product to process. However, the work with Manuel moves even further into the territory of questioning the document as a product in and of itself. This approach puts the document into the frame of performance, which gives the work a different sort of life.

_Group Members (Dartmoor)







Group Members DIY 7, Becoming an Image (Lancaster/
Morecambe)

___Rachel Sweeney, facilitator
Marnie Orr, facilitator Michelle Outram
Llewyn Máire   
Lisa Newman   
Manuel Vason  
Katie Etheridge   
Carla Vendramin

Manuel Vason (facilitator)
Michelle Outram       Alexandra Zeirle
Paul Carter    
Lorena Rivero de Beer  Georgie Read   
Mandy Romero   
Florence Peake
___ The focus of my collaboration with Manuel Vason is making performances for camera - both still and moving images.  Roles in this process are fluid and the process is robust and honest.

Despite different approaches, shared interests with Manuel drive a deep connection, and a challenge to work fast and trust in my own depth as an artist. Through working with Manuel, I have learned that the essence of my work is present, whether it is created in a fast and furious way between the camera, myself and Manuel's eye, or over a longer period of reflection, practice and performance.


Additional Information & Selected Collaborations
Collaborative Practice
Collaboration with Platform 27
Collaboration with Eric Kuhlmann
Copyright 2015