Commissioned two durational performances by Lisa Watts.
Converting Site Gallery’s upstairs studio into a ‘mini-gym’, the artist performed two works that interrogated notions of endurance, whilst blurring the boundary between athletic fitness and art. The first performance was enacted before a blind-folded audience, who listened to the artist working out on a stepping machine while reading a prepared text. The second performance involved the artist doing endless squat thrusts with the added intervention of a prosthetic third leg. The evening came to a close after the artist, who had been in training for months, finally collapsed in an exhausted heap.
Co-commissioned by Site Gallery and the Pitchbend Festival, Sheffield 2001
Co-curated this exhibition of photography, installation and video art produced by emerging artists, working across the north of England.
Artists: Chris Allton, Henna Asikainen & Silvana Macedo, Andrew Briscoe, Martin Blaszk, Helen Brendon & Jo Lansley, Carole Baker, Pablo Casacuberta, Susannah Gent, Liz Hall, Merriel Herbert, Caroline Locke, Stephen Monger, Kristin Mojsiewicz, Vangelis Vlahos and Jane Wood
Site Gallery, Sheffield 2000