PaperWorks
by keithpaugh
Description of one of his live performances:
Tower, 50 min. performance at the opening of Masculinities,
NIKOLAJ Copenhagen Contemporary Art Center, November 2001.
From the beginning of the show I was lying inside one of the big cardboard boxes dressed up in my Kings costume. Suddenly I came out of the box and started to build a tower from all the boxes and tape.
I was standing and climbing around on top of the tower as I was building, slowly lifting myself up towards the ceiling. When the tower was so tall that I no longer could reach the boxes I fetched my long homemade lance, which I from then on used to grab the cardboard boxes. When the tower was about 5 meters tall I finished it by building a wall around the edge with arrow slits on top. I was lying hidden and trapped alone in the top of my own-build tower. The only sign of me, was when I was lying rocking, and the whole tower was swaying.
Peter Callesen works for a british based design firm called Oncotton (www.oncotton.co.uk).
The rest of his site is equally baffling and beautiful.
http://www.oncotton.co.uk/peter/index/index2.html
you should stop stealing from your wife.
Yeah, she came down on me about that. I’d forgotten where I’d first seen it.
Man, I’m gonna be sleeping on the couch for weeks.
The description of the live performance is priceless. I think it’s time we all got off our couches and made our own long home-made lances; I’m naming mine the curtain rod of death.