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Always Forgetting What Is Beneath Me
About
A six-hour durational performance to be re-made for different contexts and different countries with four local practitioners.
Each performer is asked to place something of themselves into a block of ice. For 6 hours the participants perform a sequence of actions that matter. They cook food, share it with the audience, drink beer and blast the ice with industrial gas burners to create ever-changing sculptural forms and to release their frozen object.
Touring Information
Always Forgetting What is Beneath Me is re-created for each venue over a three week residency period, which culminates with one durational performance at the end.
The performance requires a large space, at least 12 x 15 metres.
The first 7 to 10 days of workshop activity can take place outside this space.
History
Always Forgetting What is Beneath Me developed from a solo performance Michael Mayhew made during a residency in St Petersburg. For six hours he melted a block of ice, 1 metre square. Frozen inside the ice was a bag of his own blood. This solo piece forms the basis of a larger durational performance for up to 10 performers. The work has been performed at IDEA, Salford, November 2003.
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