Robert Ayers
All at Sea – new poems, songs, and monologues
play video >
performance: 29 mins video documentation above – 29m 27s
From the original Festival website:
Always a traditionalist at heart, Robert Ayers has fallen back on two of his favourite media for his nostalgic return to the NRLA: collage and cabaret. Since he first moved to New York City he has honoured the long-established modernist ritual of scavenging for art materials in the street, and from these he makes tiny but rather beautiful collages that he gives to his friends. Latterly the fragments of language that he has discovered in these collages have provided him with the starting points for brief poetic monologues and songs. He will be presenting a handful of these this evening.
Robert Ayers has made performance art since 1972, and has established himself as a key figure in the development of live art in Britain. He attended the very first Performance Art Platform (the precursor to the NRLA) in Nottingham in 1979, and first appeared as an artist with Falling at Four Days of Performance Art in 1984. In 1998 he acted as the first guest curator of the NRLA Platform and in 2001 he was installed as one of the NRLA’s first Honorary Associates. He now lives in Manhattan but he returns to the NRLA whenever he can.
All at Sea – new poems, songs, and monologues.
WATCH VIDEO
From the original Festival website:
Always a traditionalist at heart, Robert Ayers has fallen back on two of his favourite media for his nostalgic return to the NRLA: collage and cabaret. Since he first moved to New York City he has honoured the long-established modernist ritual of scavenging for art materials in the street, and from these he makes tiny but rather beautiful collages that he gives to his friends. Latterly the fragments of language that he has discovered in these collages have provided him with the starting points for brief poetic monologues and songs. He will be presenting a handful of these this evening.
Robert Ayers has made performance art since 1972, and has established himself as a key figure in the development of live art in Britain. He attended the very first Performance Art Platform (the precursor to the NRLA) in Nottingham in 1979, and first appeared as an artist with Falling at Four Days of Performance Art in 1984. In 1998 he acted as the first guest curator of the NRLA Platform and in 2001 he was installed as one of the NRLA’s first Honorary Associates. He now lives in Manhattan but he returns to the NRLA whenever he can.