Art and place

Visiting Barracks Lane and hearing Jay perform has been making me think more about how art responds to place in different ways. Some of my favourite visual art isn’t in galleries but is in the outdoors. Richard Long made a series of pieces of work where he walked through fields making lines, or made marks with rocks in the landscape and created sculptures. His work is also exhibited in galleries but it still feels inextricably part of the natural world.

In today’s Guardian there’s a piece in the travel section about Andy Goldsworthy’s work in Haute Provence which he has been creating over the last few years around this incredibly beautiful area. There’s a video about it on their website, I’ve linked to it here.

Tim Crouch’s play England compares art galleries to churches and hospitals. I love art that exists around you and that isn’t made separate and put in a special place. The fact that performance poetry can and does happen anywhere is one of the wonderful things about it. Seeing Jay performing her beautifully crafted work in the yurt in the garden where much of it was created was great. I wonder what the relationship to the work will be when she performs at Soho theatre on Weds and if it will change the way that Jay performs it?

How do you find performing in different places? What have been seen that has really worked?