Holy Hiatus II visual documentation

initial written response here

still photography by Jacob Whittaker

Holy Hiatus

This ongoing collaboration between Maura Hazelden & Lou Laurens explores the relationship between the material and the immaterial through image, voice and movement. Can the physical change consciousness, create sacred space, evoke the “holy”?

Mae’r cydweithrediad parhaus hwn rhwng Maura Hazelden & Lou Laurens yn archwilio y berthynas rhwng y materol a’r anfaterol, drwy ddelwedd, llais a symudiad. A all y corfforol newi ymwybyddiaeth, creu gofod cysegredig, galw ar y ‘sanctaidd’?

Dydd Gwener Mai 22

4–10 y.p

Canolfan Byd Bychan

Aberteifi

Bathouse Road, Aberteifi/Cardigan, Ceredigion SA43 1JY

Friday May 22

4 - 10 p.m

Small world Theatre

Cardigan

A limited audience at any one time, refreshments available

Cynulleidfa gyfyng ar unrhyw un adeg, lluniaeth ar gael.

The event builds on work commissioned for Holy Hiatus: Ritual & Community in Public Art (2008), an exhibition/symposium curated by Ruth Jones, and is showing a year to the day in the same space.

Maura & Lou will be working between 4.00 & 10.00 pm. They will interact with footage and recordings from last year’s performance, creating a multi-layered exploration with the potential to develop year on year. No booking necessary but at any one time there will be a limited audience; refreshments will be available for those waiting.

Some reactions to last year’s performance:

“A very beautiful feeling and mood evoked in the space”

“opening to quietness… very moving”

“It was quite amazing…There was a lot of thinking to be done after it”

“It was a very spiritual, prayerful experience”

As part of the event there will be a meditation/prayer space in the dance studio. It is an open invitation to explore meditation and prayer in silence or through movement.

unfunded untitled unrehearsed : heb deitl heb gyllid heb ymarfer

Holy Hiatus

Ritual and Community in Public Art

Defod a Chymuned mewn Celfyddyd Gyhoeddus

link to entry for original performance

ointment

ointment
a retrospective exhibition

oriel Henry thomas
West Wales School of the Arts Gallery
Caerfyrddin
6th November - 12th December 2008

Peter Bodenham curated the exhibition and I was asked to show Reconcile I & II. So how to re-present a two performances, one over an hour long, very site specific, with the viewing restricted by the space? One very intimate....

I was given a very good documentary video by Heike Roms, that clearly showed the context and the audience; this was shown on a very small dvd player. I also took photographic images from the dvd of pertinent moments/movements. There were framed pieces of work containing nails hair feathers roses and photographs.

see here for Reconcile I & II on this blog.

all my ointment work on this blog can be found here

ointment book launch

look here for chwilio for corbeau imagery

incomplete entry!!!

midnight feast: tongue; neck; sternum

if you build it they will come
g39, caerdydd/cardiff

re-presenting Midnight Feast.

g39 is 10 years old and celebrating

Holy Hiatus

Untitled 6 hour performance

with Louise Laurens

May 22nd 2008, Small World Theatre/Theatr Byd Bychan, Aberteifi/Cardigan

watching for the liminal in repetition.
After some while I chose to do my moving from a chair. I sat, as soon as I started to move it was prayer, contemplation.

Also see set of images: here

Holy Hiatus
Ritual and Community in Public Art.

The moment of crossing the threshold between outer and inner consciousness.
Curated by Ruth Jones
Aberteifi/Cardigan

Alastair MacLennan (Belfast); Simon Whitehead (Abercych); Maura Hazelden (Crymych) with Louise Laurens; Anna Lucas (London); Yvonne Buchheim (Bristol LAND2 Member)
and symposium

for further information see Holy Hiatus web site

an introduction to the performance can be read here

and a meander throught the themes and symposium here

red riding wolf

work in progress
rose images: Quebec, February 2005, forest images: Sir Benfro, August 2006 ; part of an ointment 'all in a days work'
thanks to Louise Laurens, Ailsa Richardson & Mel Shearsmith who joined me, bringing ideas from email exchanges.

The imagery here was via www.slide.com which has now closed, I will replace ASAP

also inspiration from Angela Carter & conversations with Mike Hodson. Of course there is always more but these are the important ones...also earlier work of my own.

additional texts are being compiled here