These are the Motions | 05/02/11 | London

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"Things explain each other, not themselves"
George Oppen 1974 'The Collected Poems of George Oppen'. New York, New Directions' p 134.

The performance arranged and rearranged a collection of visually rhyming objects. My actions involved placing objects beside, on top of, inside and behind other objects. Using techniques borrowed from collage I concentrated on the relationships that could be made by proximity and concealment, using flat, paper and small objects which rested on the floor of the gallery. The performance explored the logic of a sculptural poetics that occurs in my collage practice and so was an attempt at making sceneographic and spatial collage as performance action explicitly showing processes of live decision making.

These are the motions in a series of minimal actions.
These are the motions that adequately perform collage.
These are the motions of live writing.
These are the motions that correspond to the movements of a person.
These are the motions that occur everyday.
These are the motions that are visible.
These are the motions emphasized in the following postures.
These are the motions of groups of atoms.
These are the motions of a bear and a stag.
These are the motions associated predominantly with the familiar.
These are the motions belonging to these bodies.
These are the motions of founding.

Performed at ]Performance s p a c e[ ++++ ArtEvict | Feb 4th & 5th 2011
at the opening of ]Performance S p a c e[ London E9. Photographs by Nathan Walker, Victoria Gray & Robert E.H. Wilson

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Review: These are the Motions of a Performance that is Collage and is also Writing by Victoria Gray (2011)

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Soanyway Magazine published 'Motions' (Walker, N. 2011)
A page-work responding to TATM
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