Richard Layzell
Assisted Power

Sea Cadets Hall
16:00-17:00 Sunday 20 June

For Whitstable, artist Richard Layzell shows Assisted Power, a performance that repositions his early-career video/performance pieces within the frame of a new work. Using a mixture of archive footage and live actions, Layzell casts an analytical glance over his own career, in the dual role of artist-as-individual and performer. Assisted Power has been curated by Layzell’s fictional collaborator, Tania Koswycz. He queries the point at which an artist’s impression of their work diverges with that of an audience, and how this divergence might shift over time.

Award-winning artist, writer and teacher, Richard Layzell, has shown work internationally, often in collaboration with both fictional characters and ‘real’ participants including other artists, writers and even architects. Working across performance, visual art and curating, he is the author of Cream Pages (2008), Enhanced Performance (1998) and Live Art in Schools (1993). The installation The Manifestation was recently shown across the UK and the work that he will present for Whitstable, Assisted Power, recently premiered at the National Review of Live Art in Glasgow. He is an artist/researcher with ResCen (www.rescen.net).