live art by Ruby Hirsch

Soil Voices - Miranda Whall

rmkbhirsch — 2024-02-05 16:18:59 UTC

'I lay in a pre- prepared self – dug 2ft ditch on the plateau managed by Pwllpeiran Upland Research Centre, known as the Ffridd (the upland fringe) at 600m approx. On the hour, every hour, over 24 hours, I attempted to vocalise the live and continuous numerical data stream from a newly installed sensor network.'

Bedwyr Williams - Performance at Frieze

rmkbhirsch — 2024-02-05 16:33:22 UTC

dissecting a curator at an art fair

Abraham Poincheval lives inside a bear for two weeks, 2014, Paris

rmkbhirsch — 2024-02-06 11:19:34 UTC

Abraham Poincheval lives inside a bear for two weeks, 2014, Paris. THINKing about my GUT work. being inside for a duration .. in public space compared to the gallery.

3rdi, Wafaa Bilal, 2010

rmkbhirsch — 2024-02-06 11:24:01 UTC

Surgically implanted camera into the back of his head taking pictures every 60 seconds for a year.

“I can see myself as a mirror reflecting some of the social conditions that we ignore… this will expose the unspoken conditions we face… A project like this is meant to establish a dialogue about surveillance” – Wafaa Bilal

'Wrapping up King and Queen', Zhang Peili and Geng Jianyi 1986, East China

rmkbhirsch — 2024-02-06 11:31:13 UTC

'Blood for sale', 2018, New York, Khaled Jarrar

rmkbhirsch — 2024-02-06 11:42:43 UTC

Palestinian artist stood on street in New York selling vials of his own blood. The price was determined by fluctuating stock prices of defence contractors. The money raised is sent to Yemen and Gaza aid.

Gerald Chong, the Fourth Plinth Trafalgar Square, 2009

rmkbhirsch — 2024-02-06 11:53:40 UTC

The Fourth plinth was given to 2400 members of the public for an hour each. Gerald Chong dressed up as Godzilla and destroyed a cardboard replica of the London skyline.

M'hammed Kilito - Before It's Gone, 2023

rmkbhirsch — 2024-02-06 16:59:58 UTC

Photo taken in morocco, building a wall hmmmm

Torsten Lauschmann - bared.wiped.fallen

rmkbhirsch — 2024-02-08 14:19:59 UTC

Light up trainers hanging from electric lines with solar panel and rechargable batteries.

Andy Warhol's Time Capsules

rmkbhirsch — 2024-02-09 13:49:29 UTC

Everything of interest in a box at the end of the month

Noor Abed - PENELOPE (still) 2014

rmkbhirsch — 2024-02-20 13:33:45 UTC

Sewing fish together and making a tail that is worn. "What concerns me sometimes, through my process, is how not to censor the possibility of abstraction and poetry in relation to politics, and how not to give up on image making as a place of resistance."

Meredith Monk - Duet with Cats Scream and Locamotive

rmkbhirsch — 2024-02-20 15:34:27 UTC

Tyree Guyton - Heidelberg Project

rmkbhirsch — 2024-03-01 12:58:48 UTC

Tyree Guyton - Heidelberg Project

rmkbhirsch — 2024-03-01 12:59:51 UTC

David Hammons - Bliz-aard Ball Sale 1983

rmkbhirsch — 2024-03-01 13:02:27 UTC

THIS HAS MADE ME THINK ABOUT HOW MY WORK CONNECTS WITH 'THE PUBLIC' IN A PUBLIC SPACE AND HOW THE INTERACTION CAN BE MORE DIRECT. If I am making work about the stock market .... I should be out on the street in direct communication with people. Am I selling them stocks?? Or can I find a more collaborative approach???

Esther Eppstein, Message Salon, 1998

rmkbhirsch — 2024-03-01 13:25:34 UTC

Caravan for artist residencies - travelling space for experimental art. Taken to places slated for demolition soon.

Cai Guo-Qiang - Explosion Event for the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles

rmkbhirsch — 2024-03-01 13:30:24 UTC

I made a piece called Gunpowder Plot once where people met exchanged packages and eventually met and found they had the ingredients for gunpowder, a fuse and a lighter. They went to a local park and exploded it

Mark McGowan - beans chips and sausages

rmkbhirsch — 2024-03-05 16:35:40 UTC

benazs

Suzanne Lacey - Across and Inbetween

rmkbhirsch — 2024-03-05 16:57:35 UTC

She has assembled kayakers!! to explore the boundary between North and South in Ireland. Very publically engaged. People played a role in it - it gave people a voice. She is not the grand director - it is a collaboration. Could my work be more like this?

CELL WELL - 1989

rmkbhirsch — 2024-03-18 11:43:13 UTC

Actuation on Richmond Shopping Centre Roof. This piece made me think. In my happenings - not everything has to have articulate meanings. Public performance can be led by materials. In a way that is still thought provoking and not exclusive or alienating.

STOCK EXCHANGE, 1989

rmkbhirsch — 2024-03-18 11:46:38 UTC

Actuation outside Chicago's Stock Exchange. Deeply mysterious and visual.

NOW - 1994

rmkbhirsch — 2024-03-18 11:48:56 UTC

Actuation and Live art festival. Thinking about fire and how it can be used in live work that engages the public without hurting anybody.

SEAM SAME - Utska Poland 1994

rmkbhirsch — 2024-03-18 11:52:15 UTC

Happening took place from midnight to midnight. Looks as if people's or somebodys hair was being cut and hung up. I like the idea of hair or some part of us being removed and added to an installation over time. Fingernails? Hair. Pee. Clothes.

NAMING THE DEAD

rmkbhirsch — 2024-03-18 11:58:48 UTC

Commemorating all those killed as a result of the NI troubles. Names attached along a bridge. Thinking about my counting the dead project. How naming is more humanizing. A way of making sense of vast numbers. Is to count them out. But to name is a further step.

WAVE TO WATER - 2008

rmkbhirsch — 2024-03-18 12:03:43 UTC

I have always been interested in glasshosues. and how they decay. i have often thought about trying to build a glasshouse. but this makes me think. about using found objects. found glasshouses. closhes. etc.

HAND TO SAND - 2019

rmkbhirsch — 2024-03-18 12:09:32 UTC

2 hour actuation at an art festival. I love the visceral ness of this. Sitting in a pile of rubbish for 2 hours. I would like to do something similar in George Square. Something similarly amibigious but visually punchy

art

rmkbhirsch — 2024-03-18 16:13:52 UTC

… There are no (innately) artistic means. All means are viable on condition. An artist makes art the whole of life, not a part. Is a man a farmer if he nurtures a furrow but neglects the field? The whole needs careful attention throughout. Painting is seen as an art activity. Breathing is not. Which is the root, which a result? Art purifies action. It is within the ordinary. It reflects what is. Real art requires what intermediary? It perseveres through changes. It transmutes pain and pleasure. It rests nowhere. It renders what is difficult effortlessly. It shows the invisible through the discernible. Pure art is in action devoid of ‘self’. The purest art is the most essential. Its form is to content as skin to body. Aesthetics alone are a surface affair. Real art embraces ‘everything’, rejecting nothing. Discrimination arises in clarifying self to receive what ‘is’. . . and so forth. I acknowledge most of it.

Jonathan Monk - Meeting #13

rmkbhirsch — 2024-03-25 14:54:39 UTC

Jonathon Monk made 100 text works which were folded up bits of paper in an envelope with a time and a place - suggesting a meeting somewhere sometime. This beautiful and tiny little action makes me think about the LIVE comapred to the WORK in the gallery or the EPHEMERA/ DOCUMENTATION of the work and the relationship you can create between them using IMAGINATION. HOW do I tell people about my happenings. How does the way I tell people connect with the happenings themselves. What do people create in their imaginations before/ outside of the happening?

Kaprow - Fluid Happenings 1967

rmkbhirsch — 2024-04-17 20:04:09 UTC

How Can i create happenings that involve many people. A simple activity that is accessible but creates an effect larger than the sum of its parts. Simplicity.....

Pavel Buchler - Pro Nepritomne

rmkbhirsch — 2024-04-17 20:10:30 UTC

Performance art. Why does it so often involve individual bodily stress or danger. Why am I drawn to suffer or test my limits in the process. Thinking about Lawrence Abu Hamdan's Friday event talk in which he said he thinks he is drawn to situation where people are pushed to their limits through extreme situations because these situations can act as a kind of portal to other ways of seeing. Is that what these performative acts are trying to do. To break out of the ordinary. To reveal new potentials