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Michael Mayhew

Fri 16 Feb 2001

The Doctor's Notes

21.30 till 22.30

(performance)

Bay 4
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

A work that is in perpetual process. Using the confidential doctor's notes of someone who is now dead, Mayhew creates a live performance around the last heartbeat before death is clinically declared. The work is unrehearsed, spontaneous and instinctively now. It violates and disrupts time, facts, narrative, confidentiality, and the rules of art and life. 

 

Michael Mayhew is currently artist in residence at the Green Room, Manchester.