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PQ11 Prague Quadrennial of Performance Design and Space
15-26 June 2011

 

Curators: Sue Gallagher & Tracey Collins
Camera: Mairi Gunn, Black Box Productions
Studio assistant: Anthony Cribb
Photos of PQ11 performance: Andrew Davidson


Christopher Braddock performs live in the Great Hall of Prague’s Veletržní Palace (Museum of Modern Art), in front of New Zealand’s exhibition ‘Fly-Tower.’ He stands, stationary, in the crowded Great Hall. Eyes closed, he turns his head very slowly from left to right. A video camera, positioned directly above his head, records a detailed view of the top of his head. This video image is relayed back to the adjacent Fly-Tower and projected vertically downwards from a ‘flying’ data projector on rope onto a horizontal projection screen (that viewers walk around). This video image of the top of Braddock’s head, itself rotating from left to right inside the video frame, sways around theprojection screen. Braddock is interested in: a relay between liveperformance and video ‘documentation’; in human reactions to slowed-down (contemplative) movements and gestures, which, are both confronting yet alluring; in the histories of ambivalent and abstract representations of the body via the photographic lens.

"Fly-Tower: A Live Archive"
NZ at Praque Quadrennial 2011:

http://www.pq.cz/en/section-of-countries-and-regions-on-line.html?itemID=336&type=national
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