artist:
Gillian Dyson

project:
North Bank / Sunk Island

location:
The Pier, Hull

date(s):
Wednesday 23rd July, between 8 and 9pm

description:
The performance will consist of a gathering of audience at a particular site, and taking of one person-at-a-time to participate in the performance. There will be a table and two chairs. The viewer will sit, looking out over the water. A strobe light is blinking and there is clay on the table. I will take the other seat and on placing my hand on the table, fixing it with clay. With my back to the scene I will describe an experience to them. Each viewer will hear a similar but varying paragraph:

Look across the water to the opposite shore. The light is dimming and the colours of the daytime are folding into one grey. A torch is signaling; off, on off, on, And somewhere a curlew pipes Îteweet teweet teweet.Ì When the ice has melted we will swim to the shore. We will coat ourselves in fat from the kitchen as protection from the cold and we will swim naked. We will stagger out of the water and tread gingerly over the wet rocks. There will be someone waiting at the other side with hot drinks and dry clothes.

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