Melissa Irving

failure/repeat (collapse) (2013)

10 min 45 secSingle channel / Digital Video / Colour / Sound

An attempt to document the tension between endurance and chronological improvement.

failure/repeat (collapse) was shown with failure/repeat (STILLNESS) in the exhibition How to Fall, City Gallery Wellington 2013.

    Other works in this series

    In a white walled gallery a person does a bridge pose, there aer two spotlights on either side of them. Paper is scattered on the floor.
    Melissa Irving

    failure/repeat (STILLNESS) (2013)

    A site-responsive exploration of endurance and performance.

    failure/repeat (STILLNESS)
    A person runs through bush along a path.
    Melissa Irving

    Sketches (2012)

    The artist runs, tumbles, and climbs around a location that is used in later works.

    Sketches

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