Roddy Hunter, detail from street action , “Learning Liberal Democracy”,
Transylvania, Romania, 2000. Photo: ETNA foundation.

Roddy Hunter Totnes, England

Presented by Western Front
Curated by Natalie Loveless
Invited by Vassya Vassileva
Western Front, 303 east 8th Ave. http://www.front.bc.ca

THURSDAY OCTOBER 18, 2-5 PM
FRIDAY OCTOBER 19, 2-5 PM
SATURDAY OCTOBER 20, 8-10 PM

Location: Western Front

Roddy Hunter will be performing in around and with the Western Front, engaging its history, architecture and culture. Falling somewhere between ‘social intervention’ and ‘body based’ performance, in this piece research
will govern the final form and not be restrictive from the outset.

A central concern of his practice relates to the configuration of performance art methodology via the matrix of inter-regional networks of human activity. Research interests: action art, aesthetics, architecture, audio art, 20 C. European avant-garde, contextual art, constructions of desire, erasure, ethics, ‘the everyday’ immediacy, installa(c)tion, insurrection, nomadism, non-linear spatio-temporal relations, performance art, town planning, praxis, processes of historicisation, psychogeography.

Roddy Hunter lives in York (UK) and produces research based interventions that address the the intersection of performance art and social practices. Research interests: action art, aesthetics, architecture, audio art, 20 C. European avant-garde, contextual art, constructions of desire, erasure, ethics, 'the everyday', immediacy, installa(c)tion, insurrection, nomadism, non-linear spatio-temporal relations, performance art, town planning, praxis, processes of historicisation, psychogeography. He holds an MA (contemporary Arts) from Nottingham Trent University, England and is presently Head of Programme, Contemporary Fine Art Practice, York St John University, England.