a project space project by Chantal Grech
Closing drinks Saturday 13 August 5 to 7 PM
This project follows on from a work
in the Feminist Archive show (CrossArts Books 2015) where I proposed that an archive
which documented a performance could be further worked on or be part of another
work in an ongoing organic process of change and renewal rather than remain a
static document recording a past moment.
In this work a series of readings
again constituted a performance. This was documented in the form of stills and
moving images. The readings were short fragments, some autobiographical, others
not. A memorial poem, a work by the French poet Yves Bonnefoy, and a short
series of remembrances were read at different times of the day in one place-
the river Seine, on the bank closest to L’IMA, itself an archive of Arabic
culture. The documentation of this performance will be used as the basis of an
experimental project that aims to see what happens when different systems of
representation are used to explore one work. This project shares the subject of
readings to the empty space (Articulate 2012),
which was about the nature of home and belonging but extends it to a meditation
on loss, memory and the personal as a fractal of a larger community.
Chantal
http://chantalmgrech.com/