Photograph by Bea Borgers
4 hour performance Common Ground in SIGNAL festival Brussels Belgium on Saturday 30 September, 12pm to 4pm 2017
During SIGNAL John Court was working with the students from the Athénée Serge Creuz in Molenbeek in Brussels. He discussed, drew, conceived and constructed an object together with young newcomer students and the carpentry class who made both of the objects being used in the performances.
One of the objects was designed by the artist and the other one (at the courtyard of the school) was designed from the drawings made by the students, both objects were made by the students. The students had answered through drawings to the question what does language look like as an object in what you hear and what you speak.
The next day he performs in Parvis Saint-Jean-Baptiste in Brussels.
He walks up to triangle shaped object (which was based on a structure of a roof and designed by the artist) and lifts one side of the three-sided object up. He pivots it on its edge so the object falls forward on its own, he does this on all the three sides and then walks around the object once and measures and documents this by writing the number on the side of his head and then starts again the same action. He does this for the 4 hours duration of the performance.
4 hour performance Common Ground in SIGNAL festival Brussels Belgium on Saturday 30 September, 12pm to 4pm 2017
During SIGNAL John Court was working with the students from the Athénée Serge Creuz in Molenbeek in Brussels. He discussed, drew, conceived and constructed an object together with young newcomer students and the carpentry class who made both of the objects being used in the performances.
One of the objects was designed by the artist and the other one (at the courtyard of the school) was designed from the drawings made by the students, both objects were made by the students. The students had answered through drawings to the question what does language look like as an object in what you hear and what you speak.
The next day he performs in Parvis Saint-Jean-Baptiste in Brussels.
He walks up to triangle shaped object (which was based on a structure of a roof and designed by the artist) and lifts one side of the three-sided object up. He pivots it on its edge so the object falls forward on its own, he does this on all the three sides and then walks around the object once and measures and documents this by writing the number on the side of his head and then starts again the same action. He does this for the 4 hours duration of the performance.