Enhanced Performance
Richard Layzell
Steps 1979-80
Installation and performance
"I relucantly agree to do outdoor performances to publicise the exhibition. ... It gets me out there, back in Eldon Square, mixing it up with Geordies and it's ok. It may be a long way from aesthetic subtlety but something else is going on and people join in. I get eight teenagers to walk in a line, up and down two steps. Up and down they go. Wearing a dark woolen hat and white clothes I follow my own screen printed footsteps carried in a bag, looking like a political activist/leaflet-ist with nowhere to go. Back in the gallery I do performances in the installation. By now I have so much to say about steps that it flows well."
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