Judit Bodor, Victoria Gray, Mark Greenwood, Justin McKeown, Kiki Taira & Nathan Walker

“Times which are in transition. Times which implicate each other. Here things are not wrapped up in themselves. Here things are continually wrapped up in something else. One relation always involving another. One relation always implicating another…Multiplicities, I may say then, are made of becomings and bring with them the work – indeed art-of implication. Folding. The difference between things isn’t so clear cut, the same and the other do not stand opposite each other.”

Lomax, Yve. (2000) ‘Writing the Image: an adventure with art and theory’ London, I.B.Tauris & Co Ltd. pp140-141.

O U I Event #1 was a collective action by Judit Bodor, Victoria Gray, Mark Greenwood, Justin McKeown, Kiki Taira and Nathan Walker. The activities of the artists fold into and out of each other, they implicate, reciprocate and affect one another as the artists work alone, together in the Basement of Bar Lane Studio’s. Nine hours of action was responded to live by artists Judit Bodor and Justin McKeown, presented as an interactive live multimedia archive: Dysfunctional Labour.

O U I Event #1 is Supported by the National Lottery, Arts Council England, Yorkshire

Photographs by Judit Bodor, Claire Greenwood & Christopher Mollon

Artist Scores

Judit Bodor & Justin Mckeown
Dysfunctional Labour is a lens for thinking about art. Exploring the overlap of real and virtual space, thanks to the proliferation of media technologies within the everyday, Dysfunctional Labour is an experiment in how we think about and relate to each other through art.

Victoria Gray
The performance is scored by 5 repetitive actions. The cyclic structure becomes a strategy for working through nine hours where time is measured by physical exhaustion. The actions are minimal and simplicity is used as an apparatus which produces attention; attention in the performer and the spectator. Watching repetition brings attention to the act of watching and a watching out for the subtlety of physical changes that materialize over time, each time. Time is worked as a material and as opposed to being ‘on’ or ‘ahead’ of time I am trying to notice the experience of affect during a nine hour process of working ‘with’ or being immersed ‘in’ time. I am open to being changed by those working and those watching, those visible and invisible, those present and especially those absent. The actions are not spectacular but they do transform.

Score:
Wrapping and Unwrapping
Looping and Unlooping
Turning and Unturning
Kneeling and Unkneeling
Listening and Unlistening

Mark Greenwood
‘Ronnie’ will explore ideas around deteriorations of memory, recognition and rituals of compulsion. As an experiment in communication I will attempt to contact a familiar figure through prolonged psychic utterance. Minimal actions will include – knocking, drawing, hanging, clapping and singing.

Score:
Action #1: Tracing shadow
Action#2 : Knocking on wall
Action#3: Rebel Rebel (clapping and singing)
Action#4: Washing line and boot polish.

Kiki Taira
Kiki’s practice is inspired by the diverse superstitions of other cultures and the psychology behind superstitious behaviors. Kiki’s multidisciplinary approach brings together sculpture and performance contorting ritualistic patterns to perversion through repetition rules and restriction.

Nathan Walker
‘Revenant’ is literally a coming back, a returning. I return to previous actions – interior, remembered – I reassemble and resemble these thoughts as actions - exterior, using only planks of wood, photographs, postcards and clothes.

The actions in ‘Revenant’ are slow and careful, they move more than they are still and they invoke things that are not present through walking, crouching and carrying.

Populating the space with signs, apparitions, specters of things - totem poles, cairns, flags and other markers of things that are not present. ‘Revenant’ attempts to bring aspects of my collage practice into my performance work, using found and family photographs, collectibles, ornaments and methods of display and arrangement.

Acknowledgments
O U I Performance would like to thank Ben & Fiona at Bar Lane Studios, Claire Greenwood & Christopher Mollon, Richard Lawrence, Live and Love York and the Faculty of Arts at York St John University.

Reviews & Responses
Steve Humble - 'An Affective Document of Performance'
Joanna Loveday - Response

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