 Anita Ponton
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lives and works in London. Currently working on her doctorate
in Fine Art at Goldsmiths College. She has recently held performances
and talks in the USA and Finland and is currently showing work in
Moving in London. For several years she has been running Hydra, a
live art organisation scheduling hundreds of artists in various events
around London. She has also participated at the Venice Biennale. Ponton will be presenting two related works exploring the performance of movie dialogue through different processes. The sound tracks are of outstanding quality. In the video performance Seen Unsaid (9 min) the artist is dressed as a celluloid figure with a blond wig and grey suit standing within a blank, but scratched film projection. The figure lipsynchs to dialogues cut from various movies, talking to each other, but as if they were coming from the same place, her own celluloid figure.
In Baggage she performs on a chair, bent over in the dark. Her prerecorded voice is played on surround sound, but though she speaks with her own voice, the words are not her own, she is merely a figure reissuing scrambled and reassembled dialogue from other sources.
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