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This blog will document an artistic collaboration between Ben Coode-Adams and Kris Cohen. The final work, to be performed from 28th-30th May at the Banff Centre, will stage simultaneous, real-time re-enactments of three related events: the first ascent of Everest in 1953, the coronation of Elizabeth II in 1953, and a commericial climb of Everest in 1996 which ended in disaster.
CONTACT info@bencoodeadams.com Please send us thoughts, photos, questions. Or leave comments using the 'Shout Out' links. We'll post them here or try to use them in the performance.
BIOS Kris Cohen is a research fellow in the INCITE group at the University of Surrey, Dept. of Sociology. Ben Coode-Adams is an artist whose work spans traditional sculpture, video installation, performance and curating. All his work is based on developing innovative means of delivering complex and often esoteric ideas and information, in an engaging and accessible way. Working across disciplines collaboration is a cornerstone of his work. |
Wednesday, May 14, 2003
NOTES ON OUR BANFF/EVEREST TALK 8:00pm – 9:15 pm Thurs. 22nd May Panel: "Local versus Distributed": Location: Rice Studio The Jeanne and Peter Lougheed Building (JPL) - Janet Abrams - Ben Coode-Adams and Kris Cohen - With comments by Lyn Bartram We have been wrestling with how to frame our presentation. It turns out that unpicking our relationship, at least for me, has been quite a destructive process. Essentially what it seems to lead to is an analysis of how we behave in the relationship, of how we manipulate each other. However it turns out that our collaboration is a delicate creature. In order to see it properly it must be looked at askance. Under a more brutal gaze its qualities evaporate. Every effort we have made to generalise about collaboration from our experience leads us to elaborate qualifications. Our collaboration works because of who we are now, our histories, the circumstances we find ourselves in and what we are working on. It is such a specific forum for creativity that its usefulness to other people is questionable. I look forward to your thoughts on that! Ultimately we like each other and have good fun chatting things over. Everest, Scott, Computer history, these are just places to excercise our minds and energies. We have decided therefore to describe our perfomance on 29th May and through that description reveal how we collaborate, rather than try to make very serious points about collaboration. Or maybe that is a serious point about collaboration? |
