A Self-Portrait of My Mother in Two Places

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Event A Self-Portrait of My Mother in Two Places
Venue The Performance Space (1983-2007), Redfern, NSW
First Date 15 June 1987
Last Date 28 June 1987
Dates Estimated No
Status Professional
World Premiere No
Description An installation by Roger Crawford and Tess Horwitz.

Artist statement: "On one hand, an ongoing accumulation of knowledge, displaced by time and shifting roles, simultaneously disclosed and concealed by layers of memory. The effort is to reconstruct another level of imag(in)ing from the fragments. On the other, an irretrievable loss of mother, a social denial of personal history, and a determination to create that history and establish identity through the cataloguing of information and art practice. Collaboratively, the goal is to develop parallelisms and confrontations, to maintain indef
Description Source Programme
Primary Genre Other
Secondary Genre Installation
Exhibition
Organisations
Contributors
Name Function Notes
Roger Crawford Visual Artist
Tess Horwitz Visual Artist
Event Status Completed
Data Source
Source Description
Performance Space Database
Event Identifier 142671
Dataset AusStage