Fiona Wright (b.1966 London) is currently based in Newcastle upon Tyne and is best known for her solo performances since the late 1980s, using choreography and writing. She also makes duet performances with Caroline Bowditch as ‘girl jonah’.
Fiona Wright’s new one-woman performance On Lying narrates and constructs a self or a body or is it Fiona? through lies, fictions, and unmediated glances. We watch as she risks a temporary disappearance of identity, takes advantage of fragility, and sends herself ahead of herself. Wright has created an oasis of meticulous uncertainty where we can reflect, embody, and act on unexpected turns of memory, loss, and recovery.
Lin Hixson, Director, Goat Island Company, Chicago
salt drawing (following)
A solo performance for a solo spectator.
A five minute performance for only one audience person at a time.
Advance booking advised. Limited audience capacity.
The performer waits for you to follow. The equivalent mass of her own body weight is measured in salt; the 54kg of salt is a deadweight, too heavy to lift, twice her weight as a girl. Just a handful is the (approximate) (average) amount of salt contained in one body. She works as navigator, setting a course and piloting the action through time and space, erasing and re-tracing the movement. The solo audience is invited to follow a brief moment of choreography, to view the picture of the performer faithfully starting again and always betraying the difference.
Fiona Wright has been making mostly live, solo performances since the late 1980s, presenting extensively in the UK and Internationally. Her most recent work has a focus on small and limited audience contexts; short performances for the audience, become repeated over time as long works for the performer. Her work is driven by a fascination with the image of the lone figure and the uncertainty and incidental intimacy in performance. Her performances are personalised and yet unconfessional, with a focus on the particular body of the performer. Over the years this work has often been described as “subversive” and even “rare”. Some say images of control and strength seem to flicker with moments of fragility.
BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art
Video
Playing Time: 8 min 22 sec
Publication Date: 30/09/2004
Description: A section taken from the new movement-based performance directed by Newcastle based artist Fiona Wright: ‘three: dances’ is driven by a fascination with incidental intimacy in performance and images of strength flickering with moments of fragility.
Level 1 Performance Space
©Fiona Wright
soundtrack composition: Ben Ponton
© 2004 copyright control
Language: English
Related Artist: Fiona Wright
Related Gallery: BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art [www.balticmill.com]
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