Video

Here's a video of my performance at the Arnolfini.

Right click on the links below and "Save As". The files are pretty large (500-700mb) so be prepared for them to take a while.

http://edwardrapley.co.uk/files/videos/TheLicensees-001-1.mov
http://edwardrapley.co.uk/files/videos/TheLicensees-001-1.mpg

The video was shot by James at http://www.fotosonix.com.

I've just finished watching the DVD of my performance of 10 Ways o Die on Stage at the Arnolfini on 12th of January 2008.

It was for one of the best nights of my life, in that it was the best performance that i have ever done.

Watching myself there on stage feels so strange, the video, by James of fotosonix.com, is excellent, but it really serves to demonstrate just how vital it is to be there at the performance to really understand what it felt like. A video document like this one can't capture the feelings i had, the warmth of the audience, it doesn't pick up the things i heard my mum saying during the show, all these things delighted me.

I'm really pleased that it exists and i will be using it to help promote the show but i can't help feeling disappointed somehow. Like i say in the show you can't go back. The work is for the audience in that space at that time, it isn't meant for anybody else, it resists being packaged and distributed by degrading, by going off slightly in the process of being filmed and viewed at a distance. In the same way that fresh vegetable wilt and bread turns stale.

There is an uncapturable quality to live work, what a shame, and thank goodness!

A short video tour of the inside of Bristol's abandoned, second cathedral.

The Artspace/Lifespace group are currently paying a peppercorn rent and will be cleaning the space up and turning it into a performance venue.

A video I found on Youtube of a wedding that I conducted at The Bestival.

This video was shot at the show and tell finale of the What If? week in early 2006.

The piece eventually became 'by their legs and by their necks'. It is a meditation on power, perception and struggle.

Looking back now it's a bit too serious for it's own good. But I was pleased with the performances we did give of this piece at the time.