Tris Vonna-Michell | A Performance Cycle
17 March 2010













A project by Nomas Foundation, Rome
Curated by Cecilia Canziani and Ilaria Gianni
In collaboration with the Accademia di Belle Arti di Roma, Cattedra di Fenomenologia delle arti Contemporanee, Professor Cecilia Casorati
Under the Patronage of Comune di Roma Assessorato alle Politiche Culturali e della Comunicazione
March 17th, 2010, at 6.30pm - Tris Vonna-Michell
Accademia di Belle Arti di Roma (aula Colleoni), via di Ripetta 222, Rome
I intend to perform a collection of narratives which have developed since 2003, in the form of an amalgamated set of chapters. It will be an attempt to re-examine the narratives in relation to their material dependencies and archival relapses. The subplots within each narrative and work will be extrapolated and re-worked into a new verbal configuration exploring the material shifts and archival tendencies which have accompanied all of my works. To date, I have only produced five works, which continue to expand and even disband and converge into other parallel works; the stasis of such works stems heavily from my archival and material approaches, which are often embedded as subliminal traces to the viewer – but in terms of narration and installation construction they are key pivotal elements. I hope to photograph and extract images from the variety of works, to create an inventory of sorts and leave them for the public to take away. During the performance the sheets would function as fodder and as a manual for reinterpretation (of the spoken word).*
* fragment taken from a conversation between the artist and the curators