Previous collections on art paries.
Concepts and Co-creative Performing Parties with friends.
Cambridge since 2005-2021.
Participatory Performing Parties within my practice began to appear as a side track of continuing to research participatory material at home, empty houses before friend's where moving in or out- friend's gardens and remote locations outdoors.
We were all children [once] upon a party!
The idea of animating with eccentricities a party has a long tradition amongst artists e.g. Dali's surrealist Ball parties, Expanded Andres Peres Chile, Louise Bourgeois cooking parties.
Everyone loves a good party specially with a theme or costumes. Parties like such bring back the spirit of childhood and playfulness that somehow one might looses as one gets older. Cambridge in particular was a good place to indulge oneself in creating Art Parties as I realised everyone else was ready and doing too. So here is a little documentation of the few events I initiated.
There were different themes and always different ways to participate.
-Reading text parties in series of three.
-Drawing dinner parties.
-Performance parties
- costume parties
-online parties with games
-concert parties outdoor
In the first collage for example the theme was a Birthday P[art]Y Cambridge empty friend house Friends were asked to bring a precious object to the party. The objects were collected at the beginning of the party and attendees were asked to not disclose the object they brought with them with other attendees. In exchange attendees were given a random adjective word, like a label. Toward the middle of the evening these objects were place on a carpet and attendees were invited to give a chosen object their given label. They were also given the opportunity to tell a story about their objects. Some of them decided to choose someone else's object.
Through these elements of surprise and anticipation attendees entered into a party situation where discussions loosely played and explored with ideas of identity, representation and narration which the leading principle of togetherness served as a collective meditation on identity and cultural re[]presentation construct by us. A momentary narrated carpet of shared self identify.
The party had also an installation called La Mesa, which was constructed with textiles- were the attendees became children telling stories under the Table/ Mesa in Spanish, this was constructed in a way that made us to be under the table in a room 4x5 mts.
Documenting Performance parties and happenings.
