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ROBIN DEACON / Image: Stuart Sherman / Photographer: Matt Skelley

Image: Stuart Sherman
Photographer: Matt Skelley
ROBIN DEACON

Text-based: Heavy|Interdisciplinary|Performance lecture

SIZE OF COMPANY
1–3 on the road

SCALE OF VENUE
Small to medium

PERMANENT STAFF
Writer/Performer
Robin Deacon

ARTISTIC POLICY
Robin Deacon is an artist, writer, and filmmaker based in the UK. Working since the early 1990s, much of his work encompasses live performance, with a series of performed lectures that explore journalistic and documentary approaches to arts practice. His work is characterised by a humorous and often satirical approach to the subject matter.

REVIEW EXTRACTS
Weirdly confrontational and engagingly paranoid.
The Sunday Times (Harry and Me)
His provocative approach…demonstrated the radical potential of the performance space
BBC (Whatever Happened to Colin Powell?)

CURRENT PRODUCTIONS
Dispatches
A residency based performance concept utilising a journalistic approach to devising. In each instance, a performance is produced simultaneously, and in response to a given country’s election campaign. (45 – 60 minutes/durational, 1- 2 people on the road)
Prototypes
A performance lecture concerned with the interconnection of architecture, memory, location, the passage of time, and the process of ageing through the metaphor of train travel. (60 minutes 1-3 people on the road)
Approximating the Art of Stuart Sherman
A series of re-enacted performances based on the works of the late American artist Stuart Sherman. (60 – 80 minutes, 1 – 8 people on the road)

WRAP-AROUND
A series of contextualising lectures and practical workshops are available in relation to specific performances and the artist’s general practice. This can also include after-show discussions and residencies.    

RECENT INTERNATIONAL WORK
2009 Arsenic Centre d'art scenique contemporain, Lausanne, Switzerland, Watermill Center, New York, USA: Approximating the Art of Stuart Sherman
2008 Live Brits ll, Hebel Am Ufer, Berlin, Germany, Kunstlerhaus Mousonturm, Frankfurt, Germany: Whatever Happened to Colin Powell?, Prototypes
2007 Performing Rights Vienna, Tanzquartier Wein, Vienna, Austria, The Artist as Opinion Leader, Estate De Horst, Utrecht, Netherlands: Whatever Happened to Colin Powell?
2006 Kosmopolis International Festival of Literature, Centre for Contemporary Culture, Barcelona, Spain: Whatever Happened to Colin Powell?

TOURING AVAILABILITY
All productions currently available for touring