A PERFORMANCE MADE IN LATE 2009 AS PART OF AN EXHIBITION TITLED 'INDOOR LIFE', AT WALDEN AFFAIRS, THE HAGUE, HOLLAND, CURATED BY TOM GODFREY OF MOOT GALLERY, NOTTINGHAM.
IN A DARK ROOM, PROPPED WITH 10 SCAFFOLDING POLES (AN INSTALLATION BY THOMAS CHAFFE) I HELD A LIT BULB in my mouth, ATTACHED TO A SMALL, BEARD SHAPED CHANDELIER. THE BULB FLICKERED AND hissed, and THE CHANDELIER FELL TO BITS, BECOMING A CRUDE GLASS PUPPET. I wandered round the other, lit floors of the exhibition, standing apart from people. THE PERFORMANCE LASTED SEVERAL HOURS, and finished when THE LIGHT FROM THE BULB FADED OUT.
THE HAGUE IS A ROYAL TOWN WHERE THERE IS A STRIKING DICHOTOMY BETWEEN RICH AND POOR. 'WALDEN AFFAIRS' IS A GALLERY IN A SQUATTED BUILDING. 'My perforamance WAS AN ATTEMPT TO REFLECT THIS CIRCUMSTANCE.
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