My space

Burgoyne, Greig

My space

Burgoyne, Greig (2024) My space. [Audio work, Drawing, Exhibition/show, Performance, Site-specific work]

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Burgoyne, Greig

Description/Abstract:

PERFORMANCE ART BERGEN NORWAY
Bergen Assembly -symposium (panel member) 3/10/24
VillaTerminus -Live performances 4-5/10/24
'My space' is part of a series of new works within the theme ' restless linings'. This new performance extends an ongoing focus whereby being invisible is a means to be more visible. Society promotes unachievable notions of wellness, unnecessary strength and hierarchical ideals of resilience of body and mind. Visually imposing what those aspirations should look like, mean if we aren’t seen its because we don’t meet that hegemonic criterion, as such we don’t exist.
Not to play that game society imposes, is not to cry of vulnerability or be a voice of helplessness, instead it is to immerse in and celebrate that power of concealment. Restless linings is where logic and the absurd collide. Logical in the sense of an exploration of our mental space through seeming rationality and the visual, yet in activating it, the result is far from it and beyond the visual. From communication of an outside as other, to a depth and expression of inner self. 'My space' is to work out, accompanied by 'motivational' soundtrack, all the while in a hessian sacking. Derived in the first instance by walking, rolling upon, lying on, curling up on white fabric, within ones private/ chosen space. Gestures indicative of that mindscape we navigate daily, the challenges we face and the conflicts they can bring. Those gestures where the artists was present are mapped, then cut out from the whole fabric, accumulated and sewn together creating an enterable space that appear akin to a speech bubble of sorts. The workout, less to become stronger but 'work away from and beyond' those imposed synchronicities and actions. In doings so extending a power of weakness beyond the visual body as a mutating form of at times minimal gestures whereby the drawing is an event space within the inside of the outside akin to an emergence of that concealment.

Item Type:

Art/Design Item

Date:

3 October 2024

Greig Burgoyne

Material:

body, hessian sacking, soundtrack

Measurements or Duration:

Performance given 4 times daily even 45 mins. Each performance lasted 20 mins.

Funders:

City of Bergen, Norway Council of the Arts

Locations / Venues:

Location

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Assembly Hall, Bergen, Norway.

4 October 2024

Additional Information:

Burgoyne was also a keynote speaker for the symposium “The challenges performance art faces” held at Bergen assembly with key speakers form Performance art Norway, Live art Denmark, and Beyond Ireland https://www.performanceartbergen.no/en/program-overview/pab-open-24-seminar-the-challenges-performance-art-faces/

Uncontrolled Keywords or tags :

#live #performance #bergen #norway #drawing #space

Schools:

School of Fine Art, Crafts & Photography

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Depositing User:

Mr Greig Burgoyne

Date Deposited:

09 Dec 2025 12:23

Last Modified:

09 Dec 2025 12:23

Burgoyne, Greig