Melissa Irving

failure/repeat (STILLNESS) (2013)

9 min 39 secSingle channel / Digital Video / Sound

This work was made primarily for the show How to Fall in the Hirschfeld Gallery at City Gallery Wellington. It is site-responsive whilst drawing on issues of endurance, performance and its documentation as explored in earlier works.

    Installation view of Failure/Repeat (Stillness) (2013) City Gallery Wellington (2013)

    Te pūranga karere me ngā ara mahi houOther works in this series

    failure/repeat (collapse)
    Melissa Irving

    failure/repeat (collapse) (2013)

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

    failure/repeat (collapse)
    Sketches
    Melissa Irving

    Sketches (2012)

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

    Sketches

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