DOI: 10.17870/bathspa.14216123.v1
title: Demonstrations - Contextualising Information

description: <i>Demonstrations</i> is a set of works that combines thirteen online videos, specifically on YouTube, with video documentation of twelve live-art performances that ‘un-work’ the original thirteen online videos. The demonstrations research different kinds of ‘trace’ through combined methods that use body (subjective, communal), DIY performance, scores, video documentation, participation and event; they invoke audiences to do (or try) incomplete works that, inherently, seem un-working, mundane, politically ambiguous, and thus ‘inoperative’.<br>This item contains the following contextualising information:<br><b>1.</b> <b>Skelf Site Exhibition</b>: Demonstrations 1-4 were exhibited as part of an online solo exhibition, <i>Demonstrations,</i> on Skelf Site (https://www.skelf.org.uk/), 3 October - 6 November 2016. The exhibition can be viewed via this link.<b>2.</b> <b>Elastic </b>event poster<b>: </b>a live performance of Demonstration 1 was presented to audience in Oxford, at the live-art event <i>Elastic</i> (6 May 2017), facilitated by the Live Art and Performance group (LAPER), curated by Dr Veronica Cordova de la Rosa and supported by Oxford Brookes University. Poster designed by Common Books. Used with permission.<b>3.</b> <b>ACTS / RE-ACTS 5 </b>performance schedule and web press: a live performance of Demonstration 7 was presented at Wimbledon Space (UK), for the exhibition <i>Restless Linings</i> and live-art event <i>ACTS / RE-ACTS 5</i>, 1 March 2018. Documents used with permission.<b>4.</b> <b>Squash & Stretch </b>poster and event programme: a live performance of <i>Demonstration 7</i> was presented at the live-art event <i>Squash & Stretch</i>, hosted by Live Art and Performance Group (LAPER), at Oxford Brookes University, May 2018. The event was curated by Dr Veronica Cordova de la Rosa and supported by Oxford Brookes University. Poster and event programme designed by Common Books. Used with permission.<b>5.</b> The <b>LAPER</b> tumbler page can be viewed here.<b>6.</b> The <i><b>Squash & Stretch</b> </i>flickr album can be viewed here.<b>7. Dull </b>event poster and web publicity: the original video for <i>Demonstration 9</i> was presented as part of the group exhibition <i>Dull</i>, by Sightlines Projects<i>, </i>in Bath (UK), 25 May - 9 June 2019. Documents courtesy of Sightlines Projects. Used with permission.<b>8.</b> <b>Roja Art Lab </b>poster and event programme: Two videos, 'How to stretch - Demonstration 12' and 'How to evacuate - Demonstration 13', as well as performances of the two Demonstrations, were produced as part of an artist residency at Roja Art Lab, Latvia, in July 2019. Documents courtesy of Roja Art Lab. Used with permission.<b>9.</b> The <b>Roja Art Lab</b><i> </i>website can be viewed here.<b>10.</b> <b>Restless Linings</b> exhibition poster and press release: <i>Demonstration 12</i> and <i>Demonstration 7</i> were presented live at the group exhibition <i>Restless Linings</i>, at the artist-led gallery Kosar Contemporary in Bristol, UK, 1 November - 22 November 2019. Documents courtesy of Kosar Contemporary. Used with permission.<b>11.</b> A list of all<b> Demonstrations </b>(videos and performances).<br><b>The work is under copyright and may not be used without permission. Use of this repository acknowledges cooperation with its policies and relevant copyright law. </b><br>