Dig – A Performance Lecture

Dig – A Performance Lecture

About the event

Dig – “discover by effort or search”
Function – “a performance, an execution,”
The whole is something besides the parts
Assembly as an act of repair
Displacement as an act of care
Breakdown as a return to the original
The image is stronger than the physical reality
A heap of broken images
Spectator turned participant
Instrument is generally employed in a good sense, but tool in a dishonourable manner
Staying with the not-knowing
Artistic labour vs manual labour
Artistic labour vs intellectual labour
Artistic labour vs machine labour
Revolutionary dysfunction

In DIG, a lecture-performance, interdisciplinary artist Ben Morrison presents an investigation on dysfunction. Taking precedent from the artist’s accompanying installation, Illustrated Parts Breakdown, with its assembly of broken tools and machine parts, the lecture performance explores dysfunction as a state of revolution.

Through a playful activation of objects on stage, alongside performative gestures and the reprojection of the observer’s gaze, Morrison invites the audience to deliberate on the material and cultural conditions that shape contemporary society.

Duration: 70 mins

This event is part of Illustrated Breakdown – An exhibition by Benjamin Morrison.
McKenna Gallery 
Friday 30 October-Monday 21 December
Monday-Friday 9:30am-5pm | Saturday 10am-1pm 
Admission Free

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