The Other People at the National Portrait Gallery
PRESENTATION / TALK
with Vivi Tellas:
Thursday 27th March - 7pm
Following a four month project in Buenos Aires with Vivi Tellas, the Other People - Gemma Brockis (Shunt), Ant Hampton (Rotozaza), Greg McLaren - join her at the National Portrait Gallery for an open discussion about her work; the emerging international practice of 'live documentary' it forms a part of, and how it has inspired the Other People, whose work is presented at the NPG on April 4th and 5th (details here).
7pm - 8.30pm, Thursday 27th March
Tickets £5/3 concessions
National Portrait Gallery info here.
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The Argentine contemporary performance director Vivi Tellas creates non-fictional theatre pieces involving the subject present on stage: rehearsed theatre with non-actors, 'specialists' in their field 'performing' within exquisitely drawn frameworks. This radical practice can be described as 'live documentary'.
"I explore "the thresholds of theatricality". When and where does fiction begin? I trace the elements which constitute theatre - repetition, presence, the other's gaze, ritual, text - in lives, experiences, situations, or disciplines which are not part of theatre. This interest has formal consequences: the theatre is no longer an art of representation: it is 'live archive' - a practice of the presentation of cases."
Vivi Tellas will present an overview of her 'Archive Project' including footage of the five pieces created in South America in 2003-7.
She will discuss her work and the concept of 'Live Portraiture' with Gemma Brockis (Shunt), Ant Hampton (Rotozaza) and Greg McLaren, collectively known as performance group The Other People/La Otra Gente.
The Other People worked with Tellas to create what they term 'Live Portraits' - framed encounters with 'real' people both in galleries and other public sites, and will be presenting a collection of new work at the National Portrait Gallery on April 4th and 5th.
Event organised in association with Shunt and the Other People.
Links>
www.proyectoarchivos.wordpress.com - full CV for Vivi Tellas and video excerpts from Projecto Archivos
www.archivotellas.com.ar - Vivi Tellas website
www.archivotellas.com.ar/kid.html - interview in English
www.theotherpeople.org - Gemma Brockis (Shunt), Ant Hampton (Rotozaza), Greg McLaren
Supported by the British Council, the National Portrait Gallery
Top image: 3 Philosophers with Moustaches
Left: Cozarinsky and his Doctor.
Both productions by Vivi Tellas, for Projecto Archivos - www.archivotellas.com.ar