2002
Performance, Installation
People:
Paul Jeff, Teresa DillonLinks:
locwsinternational.com/WHEN AND WHERE?
Locws International 2002
7th September – 29th September 2002
Swansea, Wales
ABOUT
Drifting is the practice of the arbitrary navigation of a city in the pursuit of anarchy, play and poetry – the aim - to reclaim the city for subjective experience and pure pleasure. Dressed by top fashion designer, Hugo Boss; Paul & Paula (Paul Jeff & Teresa Dillon) become lost and intoxicated by the city of Swansea, slowly rubbing away the veneer of civilisation in order to expose the ‘poetry of the everyday’.
The ‘situations’ encountered/manufactured were ‘documented’ by Paul on a hand held 5 X 4 field camera on Polaroid type 55 film and by Paula on a Nikon digital ‘coolpix’, with movie clip.
The result of this interventionist strategy is a subjective snapshot of the city over a 24hr period providing a contemporary enigmatic document of Swansea generated from a series of performative escapades. The ‘drift’ was over a 24 hr period from 6pm, 23rd Aug. 2002 and was carried out by Teresa Dillon and Paul Jeff.
The outcomes of the 'drift' (images, video, found objects and text) were displayed in the Swansea Museum, as part of the Locws International exhibition.
Partners:
Locws International 2002
