Bad Drawing

Burgoyne, Greig (2016) Bad Drawing. [Drawing, Exhibition/show, Film, Installation, Performance, Site-specific work, Video]

Creators:
Burgoyne, Greig
Description/Abstract:

"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.

Item Type:
Art/Design Item
Official URL:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=33JCxINq4LQ&featur...
Date:
14 February 2016
Copyright Holders:
Greig Burgoyne
Material:
Body & paper
Measurements or Duration:
13mins, dimensions variable
Funders:
Arts Council England
Locations / Venues:
Location
From Date
To Date
Old Scarborough Jail, Scarborough, UK
13 February 2016
14 February 2016
Related Exhibitions:
Concept CZONG INSTUTUTE OF CONTEMPORARY ART SOUTH KOREA (CICA MUSEUM)
Additional Information:

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

Uncontrolled Keywords or tags :
performance, drawing, endurance, covering, measurement, space
Schools:
School of Fine Art, Crafts & Photography
Related URLs:
Depositing User:
Mr Greig Burgoyne
Date Deposited:
05 Sep 2016 15:25
Last Modified:
01 Mar 2022 08:48
Art/Design Categories:
Drawing, Exhibition/show, Film, Installation, Performance, Site-specific work, Video
URI:
https://research.uca.ac.uk/id/eprint/3180

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