SCORE
Act 1: Seek out a high spot where you can be seen
Cues:
1. Hold both hands in front of you like you are diving.
2. Move your hands above your head as if you would dive into the sky.
Repeat 5 times slowly.
Act 2: In front of each sculpture along the trail
Cues:
1. Stand with collected feet. Arms and hands along your side.
2. Lift your right arm to the side with your palm facing downwards.
3. Lift your left arm to the side with your palm facing downwards.
4. Stand still with both arms at the height of your shoulders and slowly turn both palms towards the sky. Remain with palms up. Take 4 deep breaths
5. On the 5th breath wiggle both hands before you slowly lower your arms. Meet the sculpture in front of you.
Repeat 1-5 in front of each sculpture
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Note:
Score orinally made for the Sculpture Trail at Stephens House and Gardens, 17 East End Road, N3 3QE London, United Kingdom.
The video was made at the Orange Gardens in Rome Italy as a compliment to the instructions. The set up in the orange gardes across the street where the artists had their accomodation (Circolo Scandinavio), have a number of stone podiums providing for the artists not to do the score infront of sculptures but rather becoming sculptures and doing the gestures of the score.
Sculpture You is an act of becoming, an ongoing process of altering your senses and to reflect upon the attention, respect and care you invest while walking the sculpture trail. During the first act you transform into a temporary sculpture. During the second act you perform a ritual in front of each sculpture on the trail. For each of the acts, read through instructions prior to doing the movements.
Rebekah Dean, curator of THE SKY IS MOVING SIDEWAYS and performer in SCULPTURE YOU:
"The Walking Score, SCULPTURE YOU, was performed as part of The Curator’s Tour for The Sculpture Trail, ‘The Sky is Moving Sideways 2024’, and was made available to the public on the back of the trail’s free colour map. It took place at Stephens House & Gardens, a North London, grade two listed mid-Victorian museum building, with ten acres of landscaped gardens, and a history dating back to the thirteenth century. The score was performed by myself, and the Artist Laura Moreton-Griffiths, and written especially for the trail by the Swedish Artists, BERG DUO. The trail was funded by the Arts Council England.
Act 1 of the Score was presented at the beginning of the trail tour, on the main footpath leading up into the gardens, with the Artists standing opposite each other, at a distance of approximately 2.5 metres apart, the audience were nearby in close proximity. The visiting public were able to walk freely in between the two performers.
Act 2 of the Score was performed throughout the tour, on arrival, and in front of each of the 11 Sculptures on the trail.
Nine ephemeral Sculptures all by women artists, were curated on the trail alongside the two permanent Sculptures both by men artists, that reside at Stephens House & Gardens. Sculpture no. 1, ‘A Conversation with Spike’, was where the performance for Act 2 of the walking score began.
We took up our positions in front of the first sculpture, standing at each other’s side, about 2 metres apart. Synchronising our actions, we slowly raised our right arms…with palms facing downwards…then slowly we raised our left arms with palms facing downwards…In my own body I became aware of a non verbal form of communication between us, that enabled me to pre-empt my co-artist’s movings and remain in synchronisation. Reaching inside my imagination I anticipated their timings and actions. This profound experience of turning inwards in order to sense another’s actions, became compelling, a knowing, by not knowing; seeing by not looking..." Sept 1-9 Stephens
Plain air exhibition/sculpture trail:
The Sky is Moving Sideways
Dates: 1st - 9th September, 2024
Venue: Stephens House and Gardens, London (uk)
Curator: Rebekah Dean
Twelve national and international artists takeover selected locations and you are invited to walk the trail using the specially designed map. Pdf avaliable below.
BERG DUO participates with the walking score Sculpture You. Performed by Laura Morton Griffiths and Rebeckah Dean. And for the visitors of the sculpture trail to try out infont of each sculpture.
The Sky is Moving Sideways (2024)
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