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I am still your worst nightmare - The Awards
What a weekend, it's been great, I have spent most of the last two days inside the Arnolfini in Bristol, watching and performing in their live art weekender: I am still your worst nightmare. My pieces both worked to a certain extent but not in the way i thought they might. Here is a brief run down of some of the performances I saw, in no particular order and utilising the conceit of a system of spurious awards...
The award for...
...Funniest Show and Best use of a Projector I Have Ever Seen goes to... Mamoru Iriguchi for The Adventure of a Pregnant Man.
...Most playful Use of Language goes to Chloe Dechery & Chris Eley for Useful Knowledge to Know.
...Most Impenetrable Use of Language goes to Peter Reiling for Untitled.
...Boundary Transgression goes to Rachel Parry for Baba Yaga's Bastard Child: The Henpecked Version.
...Playful Wonder, Unexpected Beauty and Loud Bangs goes to Stephen Cornford & Bill Leslie for Tuning Up.
...Creating Tension Within a Ridiculous Premise and Through Minimal Presentation goes to Action Hero for Jump.
...Best House Guest goes to Elyssa Livergant for The Grey Menace.
...Most Captivating Image and Most Successful Use of Nakedness I Have Ever Seen goes to Dani D'Emilia for 47 Bones.
...Most Frequent Use of the Word Illusion goes to Caroline De Lannoy for Illusion.
...Performance Most Likely to Result in Death goes to Ian Giles for Held Hold.
...Hopeless Encapsulation of Adopted Constraint goes to Fabiola Paz for Exchange.
...Chair Based Movement goes to Francesca Millican Slater for Those Little Words.
...Conciseness of Programme Notes goes to Phoebe Davis for Thud.
...Sound Piece Which Made me Want to Talk About My Reoccurring Nightmare Wherein I'm Traveling Down a Motorway Made From Beams of Light Having to Dodge Terrifying Tree Stumps, One of Which I Eventually Hit, Sending Me to a Place Just Outside a Garden Shed, From Where I am Transported to Golgotha Upon Realising That I Have Betrayed God or an Incredibly Powerful War-Lord, at Which Point I Witness an Innocent Man Being Killed in My Place and I Begin to Feel That I'm Physically Turning Inside-Out Whilst Shrinking, a Feeling Which Does Not Stop Even Though I am Now Semi-Awake and Sleep Walking goes to for Untitled.
...Touching Use of Found Material and Quiet Evocation of Loss goes to Tim Atack for Janet Gaynor.
...Including Edward Rapley goes to Edward Rapley for The First Thing & Kind to be Cruel and also to Phoebe Davis for Thud.
Th-th-th-that's all folks!
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This awarding thingy is kind of funny but not. Why reduce nightmare to such competetive things like awards, especially when it was non curated?
Everyone knows for themselves what was good, worthwhile or bad...nothing more interesting to summarize?
buuuh on this one mate
I reduced nightmare to a series of awards because I thought it would be a funny (seem to have failed at this) way of making a little comment about each piece that I saw, plus it emphasises the positive rather than doing down any of the shows. Obviously there is no actual competition involved, as I said it's just a conceit: a stylistic tick or writing tool.
I have to say that when I wrote this I really didn't have anything more interesting to summarise, nothing had been properly digested yet and I just want to give an impression. For more carefully considered words take a look at this discussion: http://www.residence.org.uk/node/77
I find the comments about the recent Arnolfini weekened,very ammusing. It was a brilliant weekend and i would like to take the chance to say i loved your first one-to-one performance, 'The First Thing'. It was very successful and affective. I may of stayed longer than i was supposed to.But you have a good sense of humour and handled this well.You will be promptly going into my research notes. Your performances are proving to be insirational to my practice.Hope to see your performances again soon. Best wishes,Holly- UWE Fine Arts student.