Arena
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Different showing / observing / witnessing / listening / projecting / singing possible standing points
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Discoteca Flaming Star
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Musica with accordeon
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Gina
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Hysterical performance attacks
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Spoken words
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Films
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Told stories
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Songs
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Electric / Dance
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Make-Up / AACB/BDAC
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Performance in/at/on Arena by Rita McBride at Tate Modern, London, Saturday 27 October 2007, 16.00-21.00

A space in which to constantly decide: what to do right now, from which position do I want to tell something? From which position do I want to listen or look at something?

Performers:

FP Boué (projecting his films)
Bene Abel (drum machine, guitar)
Catriona Shaw, aka. Miss le Bomb (computer, accordeon, vocals)
Michael Mahalchick (different performative interventions, dancing)
Cristina Gomez Barrio (e-bass, casio, vocals)
Wolfgang Mayer (vocals)
Gina (fictional character – read by Michael Mahalchick, Jean-Claude Freymond-Guth, Celine Condorelli, Anna Sussmann, Alena Williams, Vanessa Desclaux, Paul Kajander)

Photos by Ines Schaber.

Audio recording by Matthew Lyons.

Audio-collage has fragments from „a case of insecurity“ read by mahalchick, „supreme“ by dfs, „jealous guy“ by miss le bomb, „balls“ read by Celine Condorelli, „briganti“ by dfs, „sukka“ by miss le bomb, „mies van de rohe“ from a fp boué film, „porquetevas“ by dfs, „roland reader“ performed by mahalchick, „slave“ by dfs, „la botelita“ from a fp boué film.

Ellipses took place within the exhibition The World as a Stage, curated by Catherine Wood and Jessica Morgan.

besos y gracias a David Leister, Maxine, Simon, Sean Dawson, Ines Schaber, Jo Mitchell, Catherine Wood, Jessica Morgan, Vanessa Desclaux, Matthew Lyons, Corinne + Anais, Jeremy Brochery & Mari, Irene + Lourdes, Duncan Drury, Yuki Finch, Celine Condorelli, Jean-Claude, Anna, Alena, Paul, Geoffrey.