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| Nike Savvas Anthem 2006 (Is That All There Is?) commissioned by Wild Gift. Photo: Angus Leadley-Brown. |
26 May – 1 June 2006
Fabienne Audéoud // Marisa Carnesky // Rose English // kozek hörlonski // Kathe Izzo // Elena Kovylina // Wayne Lloyd // Nike Savvas
Co-curated with writer David Lillington
Wild Gift I was a festival of performance and performative art that featured new work by eight international artists. Their signature was theatricality, spectacle, artifice - and serious content.
Wild Gift I was a show about a style epitomized by performance-based work, and representative of what was happening in the art world more generally.
Our intention with this show was to illuminate (1) an aesthetic tendency in art, and (2) the connection between art and performance art, as well as between performance art and traditional live arts.
With regard to ‘art’, including painting, installation art, video and sculpture, it seemed to us that a new artificiality had come into vogue in the previous ten years – and that this was significant and showed the influence of the live arts (including music, dance, popular entertainment and so on) on art in general. It was a case of the surface and the deeper content being separate, and this being evident and significant.
More on Wild Gift here
