David Cross and Marcus Moore in discussion

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Sat May 19 2007 12:00:00 GMT+1200 (New Zealand Standard Time)

David Cross and Marcus Moore in discussion

Saturday, 19 May 2007, 3:33 pm
Press Release: Massey University

MASSEY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF FINE ARTS

Litmus Research Initiative

EXTREME PARTICIPATION

Wednesday 23 May
5.30 pm
Followed by closing celebration drinks for Hold

10A02 Lecture Theatre
(via main entrance)
Old Museum Building
Massey University
Wellington

Participation is conditioned by the situations we find ourselves in, as well as the situations and environments that are constructed for participation. Art history demonstrates that extremes in performance and installation have been pivotal to defining avantgardism. In fine arts and visual culture today the extension of extreme is found across a wide spectrum. Models of participation are prevalent across popular culture, with our thresholds for engagement constantly being pushed to further extremes. What now is the successful extension of extreme in performance and installation and the will to engage and embody the extreme? To participate to find a limit, or depth as a pure and unmediated experience; or a phenomenon as entertainment already over the edge?

Marcus Moore and David Cross will discuss the Performance/ Installation Hold next Wednesday May 23, 5.30 pm, Main Lecture Theatre 10A02, Old Museum Building, Massey University, Wellington.

Hold currently runs until Sunday May 20th, 2 – 8 pm daily.

Litmus presents this significant new work by Cross - a large-scale performance/ Installation examining the fluid divide between our experience of pleasure and fear by juxtaposing the visual and sensory languages of minimalism, pop and the body with that of children’s recreational structures. Through suggesting the possibility of radically transforming the audience’s experience of the art/entertainment divide, Hold turns from performance to sculpture to spectacle as it considers a number issues to do with architectural space, performance art, participation and aesthetics.

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David Cross has exhibited widely across New Zealand, Australia and Eastern Europe. His work was selected for inclusion in Perspecta 99 at Performance Space in Sydney and the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne. A major performance project was developed for the leading performance festival Interactions 5 in Poland in 2003. More recently his work was included in Play: Performance and Portraiture in Australian and New Zealand Performance Art and the critically acclaimed performance series Mostly Harmless at the Govett Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth in 2006. He is well known for his often confrontational and challenging performances that place particular emphasis on the audience as collaborators. Presently he is Head of the School of Fine Arts, Massey University, Wellington.

Marcus Moore is a lecturer in Visual and Material Culture, Massey University. He is currently writing his PhD in Art History at Victoria University examining Marcel Duchamp’s originating strategies of readymade; the neo- avantgarde return to Duchamp in Europe and America and providing analysis of specific transnational influences on conceptualist practices and readymade legacy in New Zealand art from 1960 -1990. He has specialist interests on the ways visual culture is accessed and its infrastructure since the period of late modernity. He has recently published in the inaugural Volume of Reading Room – A Journal of Art and Culture (Auckland: E.H.McCormack Library, 2007) and has forthcoming essays for tout-fait the Marcel Duchamp Studies E-Journal (New York: Art Science Research Laboratory) and for Maddie Leach’s artist’s catalogue My Blue Peninsula, Christina Barton (ed.), Te Papa, the artist and contributors, 2007.

Hold is generously supported by The Massey University School of Fine Arts, Massey University College of Creative Arts, The Litmus Research Initiative and Canvasland

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