Matt Mahony-Page
Selected live performance works as well as performances to camera. The work below is either made in front of a camera or to a live audience.
Works below 2014 - Present
Upstream
2019
Performance to camera. Slow journey upstream through a Norman-era country park. Journey made through pathetically shallow water with a large soft-toy fish and sellotape.
Task set and pursued. Efforts made to remain as close to the river as possible. Complications with unsubtle human body driving the fish up stream.
Video shot by Visual Line
Failed Ascent
2018
Performance to camera, Peene, Kent.
Small explosives, 80's stool, shot within the cleavage of Peene Valley.
A romantic nod to an impossible solution of ascension.
My figure defined by my uniform, held above ground by a simplistic stool. Small explosions and bad audio. Predictably anticlimactic.
Selected Descent A
2018
Performed live in the event 'Brick & Mortar' part of Strange Love festival, Brewery Tap Project Space, Folkestone.
Soil, saliva, duct tape and wooden plank.
Small acts of spitting and churning making way for a final action.
Legs bound, fall embraced.
Photographs by Josh Jordan
Engine Oil and Brick Fragments
2018
Performed live to camera, London.
Brick fragments & Engine Oil
Body and face to the floor, moving forward.
Self built intimacy between artist and chosen material. As a result of this, leaving residue on the body and floor as not only evidence but a measurement of the physical process.
Photographs by Nigel Rolfe
Untitled
2017
Performed in the live event 'Here I am there you are', part of Art Licks weekend, London.
Soot, tongue and chalk
Photographs by Ray Ren
Dolly
2017
Performed in the live event '5 Minutes of your Time', Test-bed 1, London
A dolly and myself, from Kent to London
Photographs by Yi-Jung Lee
Selected Descent B
2017
Performed in the live event 'Work in Progress', London
Wooden board, carried and painted
Photographs by Nigel Rolfe
Untitled
2016
Existing as a photo sequence and/or low-res video captures a brief but inevitable descent down a hill of no particular interest.
Pot hole
2015
The short video 'Pot hole' utilizes an exhausted road space. By exhausted I mean;
A pot hole is truly exhausted in the sense they seem to serve nothing more than a potential threat. They are unwanted, the only value associated with them seem to be faith in solution from a community or individual.
Human routine is excercised however divorced from a 'usual' setting.
'Pot hole' (Preview)- 2015
Runtime: 00:01:27
Dimensions: 1920 x 1080
I would prefer not to
2015
'I would prefer not to', is excercised through an oddity with in a Kent landscape.
A degree of task performing is carried out but with enevitable complications.
'I would prefer not to' (Preview)- 2015
Runtime: 00:00:56
Dimensions: 1280 x 720
Pond Dregs
2014
The exclusive duck pond located in Folkestone, Kent, lower Radnor Park, held tales of filth and tittle-tattle rumour, enough to warrant intrusion.
A simple excercising of rights are carried out according to what the pond (indirectly) has to offer.