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"What a Piece Of Worke" was created for Liverpool Biennial 2010 presented by

New Art Exchange & Nottingham Trent University in association with the

Walker Art Gallery of National Museums, Liverpool.

 

Further follow-ups to the performance art project in 2011?

watch out! There will be further news updates, more details, to come, & if you want to help

as a volunteer facilitator, crop-circle maker, dancer, musician or singer then e-mail Dave and give your name & a mobile phone number! 

 

The premiere of "What a Piece Of Worke" was a triumph, but was created, Phoenix-like, from the ashes of an earlier event, which despite contractual disputes, had a wonderful range of trained volunteers who had come together, and who still wanted to take part..

.... so, with no money left, NAE/NML commissioned Dave to create a new project on 18th November, for the Long Night in the Walker Art Gallery- a collaborative performance piece, using the devising and performance skills and ideas of those volunteers and adding some new elements.... 

 

 CLICK to download programme

 

  “What a Piece of Worke ....” 

from the second quarto version: Hamlet , Prince of Denmark, Act 11:

"What a piece of worke is a man,

how noble in reason,
how infinite in faculties, in form and moving,
how express and admirable in action,

how like an angel in apprehension,
how like a god! the beauty of the world!

the paragon of animals!"

Many thanks to

Ocean Screens,

British Library 

and City of Liverpool! 

 

  

 

 

e-mail biennial@nae.org.uk, or direct to Dave 

tele: New Art Exchange on

0115 924 8630

 

 

.. a unique installation and performance, spanning 4 continents and 500 years,

with sounds rooted in High-Life, Township, Breton, Catalan and Jazz, 
the Music of the Spheres, 
pottery drums, voices
(and the Surreal Orchestra leading the procession,)
with words on the nature of man from Shakespeare and Montaigne and from the cast,
 
with dance based on circles, Mas' and Luddy,

 

with images and mixed media: in the Gallery;

 on the Big Screen; on the street; 

with Vitruvian Man by Leonardo;

Christmas Lights on St George's Hall;

Macavity's unpatented drawing machine 1913,

(for urban crop-circles on Lime Street;

and Rangoli in the Art Gallery.) 

with participative music making at the end of the evening.

 click report to download a report of the premiere