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ROBIN DEACON'S FILM FOR LIVE ART DEVELOPMENT AGENCY ANNIVERSARY: The Live Art Development Agency is celebrating its tenth anniversary through a special series of projects including ten commissions of short films about and around Live Art that will be posted online each month throughout 2009. October's film is entitled 'Robin Deacon presents the Performance Pack to a group of undergraduate students'. See it here:

http://www.youtube.com/user/LiveArtOnline?gl=GB&hl=en-GB#p/a/u/1/LpXrlWb4CIs

ESSAY BY ROBIN DEACON PUBLISHED IN BAKTRUPPEN BOOK: This book provides the first published documentation of the work of the Norwegian performance group Baktruppen. This essay 'Are they Really Norwegian?' is an account of members of Baktruppen working with students at London South Bank University.

http://www.konturforlag.no/utg_baktruppen.htm

ABOUT ROBIN DEACON

Robin Deacon is an artist, writer and filmmaker based in the UK. Working since the early 1990’s, much of his work encompasses live performance with a series of performed lectures that have explored journalistic and documentary approaches to arts practice. His work is characterised by a humorous and often satirical approach to the subject matter. His performances and videos have been presented in the UK and internationally in venues such as The Institute of Contemporary Arts, London (1996), The Young Vic Theatre, London (2000), Centre for Contemporary Culture, Barcelona (2006) and Tanzquartier Wein, Vienna (2007). Recently, he has become known for his works in political biography, with a series of performances on the lives of former US Secretary of State Colin Powell (2004 – 08) and German Chancellor Angela Merkel (2005). These works have a strong multimedia element and are often rewritten in response to prevailing news events regarding their subject. The use of recorded interviews (some recorded covertly) is a key element of these and later performances. Current projects include a documentary film on the life of late US American performance artist Stuart Sherman, currently in the early stages of production. His most recent performance piece Prototypes (2006 – 08) stylistically references the output of documentary films produced by the British Transport Commission.

Stuart Sherman 2007