Marcia Farquhar (UK)
12 Shooters
12 Shooters: twelve artist filmmakers, twelve performance works, twelve short films.
Marcia Farquhar has collaborated with twelve different artists. Some new, some revisited and re-imagined, these works include monologues, visitations, walking tours, a Humpty Dumpty seance, and her famous life-size Punch & Judy show. In all cases, Farquhar has given a pre-arranged performance for camera, and all editorial control to do with the production and editing of the films to the respective filmmakers.
The participating artists include: Saskia Olde Wolbers, Dryden Goodwin, Nichola Bruce, Andrew Kötting, Trine Nedreaas, Uriel Orlow, Jem Finer, Sarah Pucill, Gary Stevens, Tal Sterngast, Tom Paine, Zöe Brown and Judith Goddard. Each screening will be introduced by Farquhar with a pair of low-tech live performances, underlining the dichotomy of the live and the pre-recorded.
The project aims in part to address the question of documentation in the practice of performance – how the live can be transmuted into a state of permanence, how the recording in turn affects the ‘original’, and how those recorded forms serve to locate live work in the wider contexts of fine art and public discourse. Taking an interdisciplinary approach to these questions, 12 Shooters is about the live and the long gone, about the nature of collaboration, and about the precariousness and permanence of the work of art – and of this many-storied artist’s works in particular.
12 Shooters was produced with a grant from the Arts Council of England, co-produced by J. Maizlish and filmed in England, Ireland, Spain and Germany.