Radioing, Sometimes Myth 1983

Radioing, Sometimes Myth 1983

Description: Seated at a table, lit by a slide projector, an empty transparency frame. A cassette player is playing: Is e` an Aussie is e` Lissie?, by Flotsam and Jetsam circa 1930. The rhythm of the song is tapped out using clapsticks. The performance lasts the duration of the cassette track; light off.

Undoubtedly, performance art still lives. Perhaps those mid-1970s artists, such as Andrew Drummond (New Zealand artist), who took it up when it was new, will continue to produce the best work. For example, Derek Kreckler’s Radioing, Sometimes Myth was a planned and perfect performance piece by an established artist. So was (Australian artist) Bonita Ely’s photocopying piece in an unrecognisable secretarial guise.  Daniel Thomas, Island Magazine 1983.