Something Out of Nothing
Giving Up the Ghost - an installation / event / residency / performance / non-event at water damaged shop 18 within Queen Street's Strand Arcade. Themes of haunting and ghosting, presence and absence, abandonment and decay were explored through unannounced live performances of movement and sonics, objects transmitting signals, dead performances, and unflattering lighting. Occasionally human collaborators were visible and audible. Non-human collaborators bore the brunt of performative labours. The idea that "the artist(s) may or may not be present at any given time" applied to the physical presence of Kristian Larsen, and his melancholic notion of the decaying relevance of that artist at that time in that location. Conceptual ambiguities and tensions of attendance and non-attendance also applied to audiences: people who responded to Facebook events but never showed. The random passers-by who looked in or ignored the shop space. The performers wh...
