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.

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