A Horse Bleeding Shakespeare (2010)
In the spring of 2010, multimedia artist Deborah Claire Procter set out to investigate ideas about landscape and its representation in performance. Her performance search was based around questions of how to make a song of a space, and how to make a portrait of a landscape.
This period of research and development called “What if? / Beth os?” was supported by a project grant from the Arts Council of Wales.
In part it was geographically based in West Wales around the Pafiliwn, in Pontrhydfendigaid which is a large performance space nestled in the hills between Lampeter, Devil’s Bridge and Strata Florida monastery - an area incredibly ripe with history.
During the working process Oscar Edelstein came up with the title “A Horse Bleeding Shakespeare.”
The photos capture an afternoon of filming for a short video. You see a number of relationships - two men, two women, and a horse - and a sense of interconnections in a continual state of shift, caught in a spatial geometry where you cannot be sure who is dreaming whom. Or “if wishes were horses” - then perhaps it is all in the mind of the horse - this symbol of mystery, power, elegance, intelligence.
This period of research and development called “What if? / Beth os?” was supported by a project grant from the Arts Council of Wales.
In part it was geographically based in West Wales around the Pafiliwn, in Pontrhydfendigaid which is a large performance space nestled in the hills between Lampeter, Devil’s Bridge and Strata Florida monastery - an area incredibly ripe with history.
During the working process Oscar Edelstein came up with the title “A Horse Bleeding Shakespeare.”
The photos capture an afternoon of filming for a short video. You see a number of relationships - two men, two women, and a horse - and a sense of interconnections in a continual state of shift, caught in a spatial geometry where you cannot be sure who is dreaming whom. Or “if wishes were horses” - then perhaps it is all in the mind of the horse - this symbol of mystery, power, elegance, intelligence.
“I wanted to see how theatre, music, dance, and video could blend to form a performance-sketch about our sense of place and a feeling of national identity. During the project I brought together different collaborators - all of whom I had previously worked; namely the Argentinean composer Oscar Edelstein; performer-director Jane Lloyd Francis (founder of Equilibre Theatre and director of Carreg Dressage); dancer and choreographer Sean Feldman (former dancer with Siobhan Davies), rider and trainer Georges Dewez (Carreg Dressage); musician and photographer Anthony Griffiths; and ceramist Angharad Taris. |
The images in this series of 55 are available as limited edition fine-art archival prints sized at 375 x 500 cm each limited to 15 plus 5 Artist's Proofs. All prints will be hand numbered and signed by the artist. They will be also supplied with Provenance Certificates authenticating the type of paper, date printed and number in the edition. In addition there is a PDF explaining more about the work.
Team
Pre-project research
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