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Photograph by Jiayi Chen 

8 hours performance
 8 in DigitaLive, curator Jonas Stampe at YouYou Contemporary Art Centre, Guangzhou, China 
on Sunday 12th January 2014 10am to 6pm.

https://vimeo.com/84520497

The second part of John Court art work for DigitaLive is an 8 hours durational performance. In the Centre of the space in YouYou Contemporary Art Centre in Guangzhou China there are two loads of building waste (building rubble) total of 1 cubic meter taken from the local building waste ground. This material is in shape of the figure 8. At the start of the 8 hours durational performance he walks into the middle of the material and starts to walk in one direction the figure 8. He does this for the whole 8 hours durational performance. At the same time as walking the figure 8 he makes a mark of 8 or 0 on his lower left arm trying to do this every time he finishes one lap of walking the 8. After the 8 hours the performance is finished.