Performance
Buzzcut: Double Thrills
CCA, Glasgow
Mary Brennan
three stars
IT IS five years since Rosana Cade and Nick Anderson staged the first Buzzcut festival of radical, experimental performance in Glasgow. Now, the CCA is hosting Double Thrills, a once-a-month package of typical Buzzcut provocations.
It takes teasing, reckless chutzpah to call your show Boredom, but London-based Hunt and Darton have a wicked sense of humour and a flair for using the banal to explore how we live now. Apparently being bored is a default setting for many, so do we slump into it, or go chasing after excitement? Even without the ironic visual stimulation of leopard-skin costumes, back-cloth, mic-stand covers, Jenny Hunt and Holly Darton would keep us watchful and engaged. They collude in the risky business of audience participation, but they also sustain a hint of antagonism between them – will they seek to alleviate boredom by falling out, or asking us to take sides? Will Hunt smash up Darton’s cherished pig collection? Totally spot-on stuff, where seemingly tangential gambits and deadpan delivery jigsaw into gritty little truths.
Glasgow artist Steven Anderson’s Warmed Air also had a tangential feel that allowed audiences to form their own connections between his discourse – and drawings – about anatomical dissections, John Clark’s enthusiastic descriptions (and action painting) of our galaxy and the projected footage of motorcycle helmets being battered to fragments. The brain, like the solar system, emerged as a joy of complex connections, the latter evolving patterns over eons in contrast to the transience of our molecules. Instances of fragility, where helmets echoed skulls, went hand-in-hand with the strength of acquiring knowledge while the swift hands of the BSL signer – identified only as Cathy – spoke eloquently of time and space. The next Double Thrills is on June 22.
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