Writhing around on the floor, Philip Lee is completely naked apart from a smattering of wet clay and a blindfold.
This is not unusual for the artist and his collaborator Cally Trench, who use performance to create art.
Over the past three years, Cally and Philip have investigated various approaches to documenting their collaborative performances.
In 2010, they invited artists, writers and musicians to respond to their series of performances that involved the naked Philip and clothed Cally struggling to cover each other in clay slip while blindfolded.
Instead of documenting the live performance with photographs, sketches and film, Philip and Cally wished to explore whether it was possible to describe the essence of the performance through new artworks in another medium from the invited artists. They questioned whether this would evoke the same level of intensity and emotion of the event to an audience not originally present.
The result is exhibition Do You Remember It – Or Weren’t You There?, a series of instinctive artworks which include life-sized drawings, paintings in mud, sculpture, poems constructed from audience reactions, video and artist books.
The artists taking part include Marco Cali, Alison Carter Tai, Judy Goldhill, Jane Grisewood, Ingrid Jensen, Lydia Julien, Philip Lee, Sophie Loss, Tony Moody, Claire Norman, Lorraine Pepper, Steve Perfect, Alan Prosser, Ann Rapstoff, Zahed Tajeddin, Cally Trench, Helen Udal, Mary Yacoob, and Silvia Ziranek.
Do You Remember It – Or Weren’t You There? is currently on show at London Gallery West, University of Westminster, Harrow Campus, Northwick Park, Watford Road, Harrow, until March 3.
Details: 020 7911 5970, www.westminster.ac.uk/london-gallery-west
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