Fighting Song
Hanna Furmage
Exhibition Dates
9 February - 4 March 2006
Fighting Song was a new media performance collaboration developed by Hannah Furmage in collaboration with new media artist Wade Marynowsky, boxer Denver Matthews and a small group of professional and amateur boxers.
Overview
"Each boxing match is a story -
a unique and highly condensed drama without words,
this doesn't mean that it has no text or language
only that the text is improvised in action"
- Joyce Carol Oates.
Fighting Song was a new media performance collaboration developed by Hannah Furmage in collaboration with new media artist Wade Marynowsky, boxer Denver Matthews and a small group of professional and amateur boxers. The performance element of Fighting Song involved a group of boxers presenting a one off evening of live boxing rounds in a ring installed at Artspace. New sensor technologies were attached to Denver Matthews' body. The sensors translated the actions of Matthews' fighting each of his opponents into live sound. The installation exhibited the debris of the fights, the sound and video recordings from the fights and the paraphernalia of the setting.
Hannah Furmage, 'Fighting Song', performance, Artspace, Sydney, 2006
43 - 51 Cowper Wharf Road
Woolloomooloo NSW 2011
Sydney Australia
T: +61 2 9356 0555
E: artspace@artspace.org.au
We show our respect and acknowledge the traditional owners of the land, the Gadigal people of the Eora Nation.
We pay our respects to their Elders past and present and their descendants.
