‘Event for a Stage - Tacita Dean’

Along with actor Stephen Dillane (The Hours, Game of Thrones), Tacita Dean presented a live theatrical happening performed over four nights at the 2014 Sydney Biennial, with two 16mm cameras rolling on each occasion. Dillane changed elements of his appearance each night and, snatching pages from Dean who was sitting in the front row, recited Shakespeare, popular texts and personal stories, whilst announcing adjustments in the camera set-ups and the changing of reels. Dean has returned to this tense scenario and cut into the material according to the systemic logic that emerged in the course of the serialised performance, inscribing changes in time and space and thus illustrating or actualising a form of deep choreography. (William Fowler, 59th BFI London Film Festival)

Preceded by Oleg Mimosa by Sylvain Prunenec
Oleg Mimosa (2006) is an adaptation by Sylvain Prunenec of the choreographer and dancer Deborah Hay's solo Room. The piece and its performance are based on the Wholegg Theory, a complex metaphor in which the performance space is imagined to have the form of an egg.