Trouble I II & III

"Thought is made in the mouth" - Tristan Tzara

Between the body and language these three performances explore processes of interruption in an attempt to misalign the performed signifier's with their signified signs. Concerned primarily with sonic explorations of text as action, where chanting, sound poetry and shouting meet. The central action here is sound, in isolation from its signs the sound of repeated words is the performed action. Language appears as visual text written onto the walls in the performance, the writing is always anagramatic and often paragrammatic, developing the ideas of repetition and difference within the spoken actions. The objects within these performances, return again to the mouth, using objects that also trouble speech syntactically, logically, rationally and narratively. My deciduous teeth enter back into my adult mouth, mixed with cigar smoke, whiskey and spit. The repetition of actions and words-as-actions, individually and collectively, accumulates, moving away from and out of representation.

Trouble I, Sept 16th 2011, Grace Exhibition Space, Brooklyn NYC

Whiskey, Johnsons Baby Shampoo, Cigar, Family Photograph, Live Feed Video Projection, Deciduous Teeth, Red Acrylic Paint, Antique Family Carabiner, Red Electrical Tape, The Clash 'London Calling' vintage t-shirt

Performed at Grace Exhibition Space as part of SculpturalTextsIgnition, new live work by Nathan Walker & Victoria Gray, Curated by Jill McDermid-Hokanson and Erik Hokanson. More information here

Trouble II, Oct 30th 2011, ]Performance S p a c e[, London

Whiskey Bottle, Cigar, Postcard of Scawfell & Lingmell, Black Acrylic Paint

Performed at ]performance s p a c e[, London as part of a group action at Performance Matters: Trashing Performance FRINGE MAINSTREAM / UNDERGROUND. Artists involved in the group action: Bean, Victoria Gray, Benjamin Sebastian, Jenna Finch, Poppy Jackson & Sinead O'Donnell & Nathan Walker. Curated by Bean & Benjamin Sebastian.

Trouble III, Oct 31st 2011, Studio 1.1 Gallery, London

Found Postcard, Deciduous Teeth, Candle, Slate, White Acrylic Paint

Performed at Studio 1.1 Gallery, London as part of XTC. Performances and Installations by Oreet Ashery, Poppy Jackson, Kai-Oi Jay Yung, Benjamin Faga, Nathan Walker, Ane Lan, Nathalie Mba Bikoro & Jenny Hyde. Curated by Kisito Assangni.