Performance

Bartram O'Neill have worked together on a number of performative events.
 

Working across several A1 easel-mounted black boards, two lab-coated women engage in silent conversational dialogue written in text.

This discussion is historically locatable and precise: it charts the premise and circumstance of live performance art that developed in the last century. Resembling a closed debate, a textual question and answer, this work points out the influential and pivotal moments and makers of live art. More >>

A woman kneels on the floor, lays down a piece of paper, removes a stick of black charcoal from its case and crushes it in a pestle and mortar.

She takes a pinch of the ground charcoal dust, piles it on the paper, leans down and inhales. She exhales and blows it across the paper in three protracted breaths. She repeats the process working through a grading spectrum of charcoal from black to white as she moves across the floor in small incremental stages. More >>