Neil Butler
Where is the Art? (this is not a chair)
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performance: duration 32 mins; video documentation above – 32 mins 53 secs
From the original Festival website:
With a nod to Duchamps, Beuys and the Situationists, Butler discusses our shared reality, carpentry and the times of our lives. He remembers what were for him seminal moments in the history of the NRLA. He draws upon his experience as an artist, director and producer as he pursues his search for art. It is just possible that by the time you leave his performance someone somewhere in the room will have found what they’ve been looking for.
Neil Butler is interested in the process of creating art, festivals and events. In the 1980s he founded Brighton’s Zap Club and curated programmes at London’s ICA and South Bank. His 1999 art-work Wrap the World involved simultaneous events in Johannesburg, Delhi, Sydney, New York, Porto and Glasgow, broadcast worldwide by the BBC. He is the British representative of Insitu, a pan-European commissioning network and the Director of the Chandrasevana Arts Centre in Sri Lanka. In 2009 he directed the launch event of Scotland’s Homecoming. He has been a collaborator with the NRLA (Eight Days 1986) and Board Member and Chair of New Moves International.
Where is the Art? – (this is not a chair)
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From the original Festival website:
With a nod to Duchamps, Beuys and the Situationists, Butler discusses our shared reality, carpentry and the times of our lives. He remembers what were for him seminal moments in the history of the NRLA. He draws upon his experience as an artist, director and producer as he pursues his search for art. It is just possible that by the time you leave his performance someone somewhere in the room will have found what they’ve been looking for.
Neil Butler is interested in the process of creating art, festivals and events. In the 1980s he founded Brighton’s Zap Club and curated programmes at London’s ICA and South Bank. His 1999 art-work Wrap the World involved simultaneous events in Johannesburg, Delhi, Sydney. New York, Porto and Glasgow, broadcast worldwide by the BBC. He is the British representative of Insitu, a pan-European commissioning network and the Director of the Chandrasevana Arts Centre in Sri Lanka. In 2009 he directed the launch event of Scotland’s Homecoming. He has been a collaborator with the NRLA (Eight Days 1986) and Board Member and Chair of New Moves International.