Paul Hurley
Untitled Actuation, March 2010
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performance: duration 45 mins; video documentation above – 47 mins
From the original Festival website:
Paul Hurley will be performing one of a new series of untitled actions that he has been making since 2008. A departure from his previous Becoming-animal performances, these works are created as looser ‘actuations’ exploring philosophical notions of becoming, presence and embodiment, through ritualised physical actions and visual tableaux. Hurley’s aesthetic undoubtedly draws on elements of classic action art (using metal buckets, paint and acts of physical endurance) as well as what he has elsewhere called ‘the shamanoid’ – a mode of performance that draws from shamanism and ritual but does so with a reflexive nod that is at the same time affirmative and self-ridiculing, an earnest gesture and a blasphemy.
Paul Hurley has been making performance since 2000 and has shown his work in galleries, theatres and festivals internationally, including NRLA (2004), Experimentica, Inbetween Time, CAT Show, Art Nomade, BONE Festival and Queer City Cinema. He is currently completing his PhD Reconfiguring the Human: On the Becoming-other of Performance at the University of Bristol, in collaboration with Arnolfini and supported by the AHRC.
The action Untitled, March 2010 is a version of a piece originally made for Arnolfini, Bristol, in early 2009.
Untitled Actuation, March 2010
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From the original Festival website:
Paul Hurley will be performing one of a new series of untitled actions that he has been making since 2008. A departure from his previous Becoming-animal performances, these works are created as looser ‘actuations’ exploring philosophical notions of becoming, presence and embodiment, through ritualised physical actions and visual tableaux. Hurley’s aesthetic undoubtedly draws on elements of classic action art (using metal buckets, paint and acts of physical endurance) as well as what he has elsewhere called ‘the shamanoid’ – a mode of performance that draws from shamanism and ritual but does so with a reflexive nod that is at the same time affirmative and self-ridiculing, an earnest gesture and a blasphemy.
Paul Hurley has been making performance since 2000 and has shown his work in galleries, theatres and festivals internationally, including NRLA (2004), Experimentica, Inbetween Time, CAT Show, Art Nomade, BONE Festival and Queer City Cinema. He is currently completing his PhD Reconfiguring the Human: On the Becoming-other of Performance at the University of Bristol, in collaboration with Arnolfini and supported by the AHRC.
The action, Untitled, March 2010 is a version of a piece originally made for Arnolfini, Bristol, in early 2009.