The Substation/ Artist/Eve Sussman (USA)/
Eve Sussman is a British-born American artist of film, video, installation, sculpture, and photography. Sussman is best known for translating well-known painting masterpieces into opulent video re-enactments.
Feature image: Eve Sussman, Photographic Still from the Rape of the Sabine Women (Themis in Bird Cage)
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More Up A Tree
More Up a Tree is a performance by drummer Jim White, dancer Claudia De Serpa Soares and artist Eve Susssman, that takes place in a 7 x 4m box of 2-way mirrored Plexiglas. At times the audience sees through the glass but the dancer and drummer cannot see out, and at others, the audience can only see themselves reflected back from the mirrored glass.
The performers are alone, in public. This unusual sense of privacy changes their demeanour while the audience takes on an ordained voyeurism, transcending the usual performer-viewer relationship. By doing away with narrative and melody, and making a constantly “in flux” relationship to the public, attention is focused on the agency of the drumming and dancing and the audience. More Up a Tree reveals the meaningful nature of movement by removing tonality and concentrating action inside a box.
Presented by The Substation and Melbourne Festival.
