Permanent Collection – simultaneous ongoing action

Abstract

Permanent Collection – simultaneous ongoing action - is a practice- based artistic research project, constructed around the idea of a permanent collection. An attempt to construct a permanent collection collectively by means of a movement-based practice usually associated with impermanence or ephemerality.

Constructing a protocol for moving together simultaneously across time and space was an early formulation of what would become an essential tenet of Permanent Collection: the unification of collective experiences through the imaginative and corporeal medium of performance.

Another core element of the research project dealt with collective memory and history and explored how knowledge is passed on from bodies to bodies, the body’s role in constructing historical narratives, memory and remembering by doing.