Expanded Performance: Ruth Buchanan
Main Expanded Performance: click hereRuth Buchanan is an artist who often uses methods and media such as sculpture, photography, text, video, performance, sound and graphics; she constructs both literary and built spaces that investigate the parameters of artistic action. This investigation often takes the form of staging encounters with particular figures, historical scenarios or architectural locations; subsequently these encounters become groups of objects, spatial propositions or collections of words.
For Expanded Performance Buchanan has created three spatial scenarios: in each case the same audio piece is coupled with a sculptural form. The artist is heard reading a script which becomes a narration for the room and the encounters between the audience and the forms installed within it.
A large curtain suspended from the ceiling both highlights and cuts through the double-level space of Stroom: made from a light fabric, it moves when bodies are near it. A coloured filter creates a modulated spot-light, pointing to boundaries of appearance. A large colour-field is painted directly onto the wall downstairs, proposing a point of concentration within the larger space.
These three interventions create a circuit of viewing, listening and moving - a specific kind of consciousness both of ones own body, but also how this body appears, acts or relates to the exhibition space.
Ruth Buchanan (1980) is a New Zealand artist currently living in Berlin. Using methods and media such as sculpture, photography, text, video, performance, sound and graphics, she constructs both literary and built spaces that investigate the parameters of artistic action. This investigation often takes the form of staging encounters with particular figures, historical scenarios or architectural locations; subsequently these encounters become groups of objects, spatial propositions or collections of words. Recent exhibitions and performances include Beyond Words, GAK, Bremen (2012); A wavy line..., Kolschiner Kunstverein (2012); Furniture, Plan, Rival Brain, Hopkinson Cundy, Auckland (2011); Eigenwillige Zeichensetzung, Grazer Kunstverein, Graz, (2011); The weather, a building, Tate Modern, London (2011); Sculptor, Kunsthaus Bregenz, Bregenz (2010).
LINKS
www.hopkinsoncundy.com
Hopkinson Cundy, New Zealand
www.grazerkunstverein.org
Grazer Kunstverein, 'Eigenwillige Zeichensetzung', 2011
http://archived.janvaneyck.nl
Jan van Eyck Academie, 2008-09
Ruth Buchanan, Stroom Den Haag, 2012
photo: Eric de Vries, courtesy Stroom Den Haag
photo: Eric de Vries, courtesy Stroom Den Haag
Ruth Buchanan, Stroom Den Haag, 2012
photo: Eric de Vries, courtesy Stroom Den Haag
photo: Eric de Vries, courtesy Stroom Den Haag
Ruth Buchanan, Stroom Den Haag, 2012
photo: Eric de Vries, courtesy Stroom Den Haag
photo: Eric de Vries, courtesy Stroom Den Haag
Ruth Buchanan, Stroom Den Haag, 2012
photo: Eric de Vries, courtesy Stroom Den Haag
photo: Eric de Vries, courtesy Stroom Den Haag
Ruth Buchanan, The weather, a building, performance, Tate Modern, London, 2011
photo: courtesy the artist
photo: courtesy the artist
Ruth Buchanan, Sculptor, installation and performance, Kunsthaus Bregenz, Bregenz, 2010
photo: courtesy the artist
photo: courtesy the artist
Ruth Buchanan, Sculptor, installation and performance, Kunsthaus Bregenz, Bregenz, 2010
photo: courtesy the artist
photo: courtesy the artist