David Richmond
slipping away
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performance: duration 36 mins; video documentation above – 36 mins 27 secs
Artist statement from the original Festival website:
A return, a constant iteration of endless returns – a return to the beach, to childhood, to understanding the world through doing, being, to the beginning.
Slipping Away is inspired by a lost photograph of me, aged 7, standing on a beach with my Tarzan trunks pulled down around my ankles, a re-enactment is attempted. Now the photograph is lost the event itself seems doubly mislaid, all I have is words, litanies, repetitions, agonies of words.
Words with me, as I am now, taking the place of me as I was then. Or as I remember I was then.
On a beach on the west coast of Scotland nearly 80 years ago today my Uncle washed up dead.
In a hospital in London nearly 30 years ago today my Dad took his last in breath.
slipping away is a performance as an event that calls upon witnesses, seeks to bare testimony and itself constructs memories.
A middle aged man is slipping away struggling to re-member; is this how it is, is this how it is…
slipping away is fucking funny
For the past 20 years David Richmond has been engaged in the creation of over 50 original performance works. For the past 17 years David has been collaborating with Jules Dorey Richmond creating experimental and innovative works, pulling together their respective disciplines of visual art and theatre. Since 1996 they have been engaged in a Theatre of Witness series of collaborative works with World War Two Veterans, Survivors and Witnesses in various communities throughout Britain. This process is ongoing and 1998 led them on a secular pilgrimage to Auschwitz.
David and Jules have been funded by the Scottish Arts Council and Glasgow City Council, as well as receiving support in kind from the British Council. David is also the founding member of Pants Performance Association, who were awarded Barclays New Stages Award for Experimental British Theatre in 1992. Their latest work absent friends was seen as part of last-maker at Lancaster University in February 2008. Pants performed at the NRLA in 1989 and 1996. David is currently a senior lecturer in theatre and performance and Head of Programme BA (Hons) Theatre at York St John University.
slipping away has been made possible by: Faculty of Arts Research Capability Funding Sabbatical, York St John University. C4C Cetl, York St John University. Guy Dartnell’s Pen Pynfarch mentoring programme. Presented by PANTS.
Pants presents David Richmond
slipping away
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Artist statement from the original Festival website:
A return, a constant iteration of endless returns – a return to the beach, to childhood, to understanding the world through doing, being, to the beginning.
Slipping Away is inspired by a lost photograph of me, aged 7, standing on a beach with my Tarzan trunks pulled down around my ankles, a re-enactment is attempted. Now the photograph is lost the event itself seems doubly mislaid, all I have is words, litanies, repetitions, agonies of words.
Words with me, as I am now, taking the place of me as I was then. Or as I remember I was then.
On a beach on the west coast of Scotland nearly 80 years ago today my Uncle washed up dead.
In a hospital in London nearly 30 years ago today my Dad took his last in breath.
slipping away is a performance as an event that calls upon witnesses, seeks to bare testimony and itself constructs memories.
A middle aged man is slipping away struggling to re-member; is this how it is, is this how it is…
slipping away is fucking funny
For the past 20 years David Richmond has been engaged in the creation of over 50 original performance works. For the past 17 years David has been collaborating with Jules Dorey Richmond creating experimental and innovative works, pulling together their respective disciplines of visual art and theatre. Since 1996 they have been engaged in a Theatre of Witness series of collaborative works with World War Two Veterans, Survivors and Witnesses in various communities throughout Britain. This process is ongoing and 1998 led them on a secular pilgrimage to Auschwitz.
David and Jules have been funded by the Scottish Arts Council and Glasgow City Council, as well as receiving support in kind from the British Council. David is also the founding member of Pants Performance Association, who were awarded Barclays New Stages Award for Experimental British Theatre in 1992. Their latest work absent friends was seen as part of last-maker at Lancaster University in February 2008. Pants performed at the NRLA in 1989 and 1996. David is currently a senior lecturer in theatre and performance and Head of Programme BA (Hons) Theatre at York St John University.
slipping away has been made possible by: Faculty of Arts Research Capability Funding Sabbatical, York St John University. C4C Cetl, York St John University. Guy Dartnell’s Pen Pynfarch mentoring programme.