| Work Type: | installation | | Work Sub Type: | performative drawing/sound installation | | Date of work: | 1999 | | Materials: | medium: self-portrait drawings, video, ghetto-blasters
| | Subject: | performance, installation, self-portrait, drawing, studies, discarded, urgency, expressive, gesture, line, tension, violence, video, documentation, ghetto-blaster, manic, street-evangelists, preaching, message | | Technique: | parr lined the room with enlargements of self-portraits that had initially been discarded, the initial drawing process was videoed and is shown with the drawings whilst four ghetto blasters play messages from street evangelists | | Collection: | Liverpool Biennial
| | | Description: | Parr's second piece is an installation entitled Water from the Mouth 2, which also incorporates an element of performance. For this piece he has covered the walls of his room with self-portraits enlarged from original studies that he discarded on the floor as he moved around the space. His working method and the scattered drawings contribute to the sense of urgency that is so expressively rendered in the taught lines and gestures of the drawings themselves. A video of the drawing process underlines the performative aspect of the work, while four ghetto-blasters proclaim the manic messages of street evangelists. [MORE][LESS]Parr's second piece is an installation entitled Water from the Mouth 2, which also incorporates an element of performance. For this piece he has covered the walls of his room with self-portraits enlarged from original studies that he discarded on the floor as he moved around the space. His working method and the scattered drawings contribute to the sense of urgency that is so expressively rendered in the taught lines and gestures of the drawings themselves. A video of the drawing process underlines the performative aspect of the work, while four ghetto-blasters proclaim the manic messages of street evangelists. | | | Source: | Trace, 1st Liverpool Biennial of Contemporary Art, Festival catalogue | | | Date of source: | 1999 | |
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