"Only when we move do we see the chains" - Rosa Luxemburg

Bad drawing / paper cell is a site-specific drawing performance commissioned for The Prison Drawing Project, Scarborough jail, Yorkshire, presented as a film grafted onto the space that is the cell. It takes the notion of drawing as an act of covering and form of measurement, in an immersive act of attempted liberation. Measuring using rolls of paper, the film chronicles what could be seen as a bad day wallpapering a space, no assistants, paste or ladders just a desire to cover and negate the cell. Only stopping when exhausted, Burgoyne offers the viewer a spectacle of endurance undaunted by a failure doomed from the start. In his attempts to be free of the cell, he is potentially submerged in the paper as a result. The outcome is a film projected across the cell walls that unites the tension between the restricted, solid space with a fluidity and potential of the performative act. Consequently, the solid and static of the prison cell could be in doubt and liberation maybe indeed be possible.

Bad drawing/paper cell, was selected & commissioned for the The Prison Drawing Project as part of Coastival, the annual Arts festival for Scarborough, Yorkshire, February 2016.

Catalogue available at the following link: https://issuu.com/team_prison/docs/the_prison_drawing_project_issuu_op

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