Between Saying and Doing
Above: Video documentation of the performance Between Saying and Doing (on YouTube and on Vimeo).
Between Saying and Doing is an intervention performance initiated at Eva and Franco Mattes (http://www.0100101110101101.org) Synthetic Performances exhibition in Second Life on April 4th 2008 and is currently ongoing. The aims of the Synthetic Performances were to re-enact historical 20th century performances within virtual environments effectively questioning physicality and being by creating a conflict with performances traditionally perceived role.
Between Saying and Doing takes Eva and Franco Mattes work as its starting point and relates it to the artist’s ideas appropriated from Keith Arnatt in performances entitled Trouser - Word Piece. Questioning the role of the artist, identity and being, Between Saying and Doing considers in an ironic manner how new media as an environment reconfigures the artists practice, simultaneously expanding possibilities of expression and communication while undermining existing value systems.
The performance purposefully plays on ideas of layering; representations of identity and place within itself i.e. the use of my real life (RL) name in Second Life (SL) and the framing of the video documentation to include the computer desktop, a window from RL into a virtual ‘place’ which itself holds a window into SL; the layering of a narrative, a ‘text’, about the work within the work etc.
Above: Click image for a gallery of performance photos.
Above: Click image for a a gallery of performance photos taken in front of various art works in Secondlife.
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December 19th, 2008 at 7:18 pm
[…] I finally did some work with Second Life of my own, a performance called Between Saying and Doing. This was the result of some ideas I’ve been thinking about for over a year but was also to a […]
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January 17th, 2009 at 2:32 am
[…] New work online - Between Saying and Doing, by Garrett Lynch http://www.asquare.org/works/between-saying-and-doing […]
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February 6th, 2009 at 2:03 pm
[…] Feb 2009. video screening features: - Henry Gwiazda’s living grid - Garrett Lynch’s between saying and doing - Joseph DeLappe’s … Ghandi’s March to Dandi … - Oberon Onmura’s […]
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February 10th, 2009 at 7:43 pm
[…] Between Saying and Doing will be exhibited as part of Globalscreen - Simulations at numerous locations from February 2009 until 2010. Simulations, is an artistic examination of questions of perception and of the Zeitgeist in an era of inundation by pictures and by simulations of reality. These increasingly influence human society, the sciences and the world economy. Perceptions are shifting, in all spheres of life. The artists in this project have been invited to develop a specific perspective in reflecting individually these technological and cultural processes, be it in a political, aesthetic or philosophical approach. The genres extend from experiment to the interactive and animation and to work in documentary mode. […]
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February 24th, 2009 at 4:35 pm
[…] Between Saying and Doing will be exhibited at “@”, Ars Virtua locations in RL (Southern California Institute of Architecture, Los Angeles, CA) and SL (Seventh Eye) between the 26/02/09 and the 28/02/09. The following is taken from the exhibition statement: “@” is an exhibition that examines space and site. With simultaneous locations in Los Angeles and Second Life (SL), “@”challenges artists to consider place & placelessness from within the context of networked culture. The physical gallery space will be replicated within SL, featuring an actual window between the virtual and real worlds to observe and be observed. The exhibition space will feature a floor-to-ceiling projection and a streaming video camera. This wall will serve as the interface between the Real Life (RL) in the gallery and its replication in Second Life. The intent for “@” is to exploit the philosophically rich mirroring between RL and SL, as well as the paradoxical condition of being the observer and observed. […]
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March 31st, 2010 at 1:34 pm
[…] Between Saying and Doing will be exhibited at Liminality: The Space Between Worlds opening at Antena in Chicago (RL) and at I Am Columbia Island (SL) this Friday (16/03/10) 6pm-10pm, Chicago time (that’s midnight to 4am GMT). The curatorial statement reads as follows: […]
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May 1st, 2010 at 9:15 am
[…] Lynch, a representation of my real life (RL) identity Garrett Lynch, in front of my own art work Between Saying and Doing in Second Life, itself a representation of my identity within a representation of a space, this […]
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June 2nd, 2010 at 6:19 am
[…] performance continued ideas of the artist, identity and being from the works Between Saying and Doing and On Exactitude of Similitude. The artist, wearing his now usual sandwich board, generated two […]
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August 14th, 2010 at 9:03 am
[…] continued ideas of the artist, identity and being from the initial performance and the works Between Saying and Doing and On Exactitude of Similitude while introducing suggestions of ‘place’ and its […]
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