dis/appearance: silence
Collaborative Performance Installation
Year - 1991
Location - 200 Gertrude Street Gallery & Artist Spaces, Melbourne, Australia
Collaborators - Charles Anderson, Russell Walsh, Jane Longhurst
dis/appearance: silence... is a gesture towards the idea of the festival. It celebrates the proposition that:
A person (Body A for Artist) makes a body of work (Art) at a specific site. A second artist (B for Body) visits the siteand anatomises the body of work (Art). The first person (Body A for Artist) dis/appears.
dis/appearance: silence... comprises a single performance extending over five working days. Each daily episode begins at first light (ie pre-dawn) in Studio 13, 200 Gertrude St and lasts for approximately one hour. The elements of each episode include: Studio 13, where visual artist Charles Anderson worked from 1989 to 1991, artefacts made by Charles Anderson during this period, performer Jane Longhurst, 'natural' light and sound, and an invited audience (capacity of 20).
dis/appearance: silence... was the first collaboration between The Anatomy Project and performer Jane Longhurst.
The Anatomy Project was conceived in April 1989 as an on-going collaboration between Charles Anderson and Russell Walsh. Its purpose is the exploration and development of ideas and other artistic concerns associated with the iconographic traditions of the 'anatomy lesson', a tradition epitomised, say, by Rembrant's "Anatomy (or Anatomy Lesson) of Dr Nicholaes Tulp (socalled)', 1632.
dis/appearance: silence... further pursued these lines of enquiry in the light of an associated iconographic tradition, that of 'the artist in his (sic) studio'
