Measure 1 (For Valie) 2004

Performace for the first major survey of Valie Export’s  work in the UK at Camden Arts Centre, September 2004


The performance took place in the education room at Camden Arts Centre. The performer stands blindfolded in the middle of the room on a chair. Slowly turing, she uses a long,thin bamboo cane cut to a length long enough to reach all corners and walls of the gallery. She is pointing the cane to touch the walls of the space and slowly moves it in spiral rounds higher towards the ceiling, while visitors move within the space to avoid the end of the cane touching them.