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Anne Bean 
the artists | Double Being (1985) |
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I made numerous works with Giles Thomas in Butlers Wharf 1977-1979. For a couple of years we made improvised works, both sound and visually based, often daily and non-audience based. A drawing from work we tried at that time has this note: A light-proofed cupboard with a quartz halogen light inside and someone with an electric drill. As he/she drills a hole a slide with a hole is projected and when the second hole is drilled a slide with 2 holes is projected and so on. Someone sprinkles powder on the light sources from both the cupboard and projector to create ‘rods’ of light in the room. We also worked in several venues including the Zap Club in 1985 Anne Bean’s collaborator (Giles Thomas)slowly constructed a wooden pyramid painstakingly, with saws and wood working materials, whilst Bean herself sat calmly in the audience. Once completed, she entered the space and was sealed in the pyramid, with a Black and Decker drill and an electric light on a loose lead. Silence, then a slow muffled buzz, as she started drilling holes from inside and then gaining momentum, till all one saw was a snarling mass of flailing hair, drill, lightbulb and splinters. Impressive, dangerous---- some of the platform performers could well have taken some lessons from her on the essential nature of risk. Performance Magazine |
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