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Emerge

By  Sarah Spanton 2000

Lizzie Coombes

Site-specific durational performance - a glass-doored lift mirrored and metallic inside, 2 women in deep red felt dresses rotate, entwine and contort within. They are seen gliding past as the lift travels between floors, where you can summon the lift and the performance together or send them away. "The first time they had arrived, at least one of them was up side down. That's right, not upright. She was clambering all the way around the interior of the lift, methodically climbing the walls. Her coarse red felt dress was moulting as it brushed against the carpet. I kept my finger on the recall button". Lynn Turner, Journal of Visual Culture Volume 1, Number 3, Dec 2002.
36665 Sarah Spanton

City Scribe: Leeds 1 & 2

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