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Ruth Proctor
My work is made in response to a particular space and time, staging a performative moment in the gallery or space with sculptural objects, film and drawing. Fascinated by spectacle sports such as ice skating and gymnastics, the contemporary dance of Michael Clark and Merce Cunningham and the fantastic set pieces of Busby Berkley, my concern is with the staging of this spectacle and the build-up to the transitory performance that the audience experiences, as if trying to capture a fragile moment of awareness between this build-up and the event itself. I am interested in using repetition, rhythm and tableaux in my work as well as the idea of the double.
The objects I make are like performers in a modernist spectacle along with Drawings that are abstract visual scores for silent music, paintings that capture a fleeting moment and film that is edited rhythmically and visually that dances around space on continuous loops. My work is all integrated in to new forms, made from both new and used materials and found objects which have had another or previous use e.g. snooker table felt, juggling rings, necklaces, musical instruments and acetates used as proof mixes for master recordings of vinyl records. My source material for recent work includes a range of artists such as Lubiov Popova, Oskar Schlemmer and Francis Picabia as well as Russian Constructivist Theatre and films such as Jean Cocteau's Orphee (1950) and Powell and Pressburger's A Matter of Life and Death (1946).
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