Keepers

A 40 minute performance at low tide on Godrevy Beach, Cornwall, involving ten people dressed in red coveralls etching a large scale drawing in the sand with garden rakes. The choreographed movements were prompted by a foghorn, fired by the central figure.
While the design was in apart a homage to the nearby Godrevy Lighhthouse, ( made famous internationally through Virginia Woolf's novel "To the LIghthouse"), the performance also referred to the substantial industrial heritage associated with the beach, now a place reserved almost solely for leasure activity. The performance also aimed to question the notion of artwork solely as the product of individual, and celebrate collective endeavour.
This was a collaborative woek with artist Lucie Bray.
The performance was part of a siste specific weekend event, located on Godrevy Headland, which included a photographic installation across the headland, and a film evening in the nearby village hall. For more about the project: www.thisweekend.org.uk