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I'm rubbish at updating my blog.
I am, however, quite good at painting chips.

Meanwhile, also at A Foundation.

I've been helping artist Jacob Dahlgren construct his new installation for The Economy of the Gift exhibition.

This mainly involves painting A LOT of wooden blocks, and to a lesser extent; wearing stripes, shivering, eating Mars bars, listening to insane Radio 2 phone ins and generally having a pretty good time.

I've been working on the installation for the past week, and its getting rather exciting as Jacob pieces all the bits together. A huge, brightly coloured beast of a piece is taking shape.

The Economy of the Gift opens at A Foundation, Liverpool this Thursday, and is on until May 22nd.



http://www.jacobdahlgren.com/
http://www.afoundation.org.uk/liverpool/details.php?id=50

I could never live like you do

I could never live like you do is a film/performance by Rebecca Lennon, to be exhibited at A Foundation as part of the upcoming The Economy of the Gift show - http://www.facebook.com/pages/A-Foundation/46944041833#!/event.php?eid=314472468887&ref=mf

Myself and around thirty others are taking part in this piece. Last week, on a very cold set at A Foundation, we filmed a version of the performace that will be screened throughout the duration of The Economy of The Gift exhibition.

The performance is based on an image of a North Korean mass demonstration (on a smaller scale) taken from the singular perspective of a national (UK) newspaper. In its recreation, the political ideology of the original image will be erased, and the performance will instead focus on colour, gesture and pattern alone. The performance will explore our distanced and cinematic relationship to ‘foreign’ political images and create a tension between personal and collective, local and global, intimacy and distance.

The piece will be performed at the opening of The Economy of the Gift at A Foundation, Liverpool, Thursday 9th April.

www.rebeccalennon.co.uk