Lewis Cavinue
My observations become performances, videos and site installations that focus on the body through space and ideas, often employing participation and humour.
About
Pretext
Noun
: a reason given in justification of a course of action that is not the real reason.
: based on a half-truth or developed in the context of a misleading fabrication.
I'm a performance artist. Do with that information what you wish! My work challenges you to throw dodgeballs at my face and stand idly as I pull a stack of wobbly books across a 30 meter gallery, all the whilst pondering what the boundary between reality and deception can be.
I am constantly baffled, wound up and perplexed by the world, but more specifically the clueless things people say and do. As a non-participant observer to daily life, I always seek new ways at looking sideways. Documentation of my own life becomes my performances, and my performances sometimes become artworks.
Pretext, 2024, brings together the sense of a live experience within the disillusion of sculpture. Discussing themes of liveness, mass knowledge systems and humour, the work invites a relationship between art, artist, and audience.
Pulling inspiration from the concepts of pressure and burden, the artworks reflect our engagement with mass knowledge systems and the societal expectations to stay consistently well-informed. Learning from people, from books and from our landscape. Acting as a symbol of the collective burden that knowledge places on our shoulders.
Shelved
Pretext
Dodge, No Dodge
Compiled Drawing
A Pledge to the Page
Oblivious Reading
Keep an eye on my website and instagram for print releases and involved exhibitions.
Most importantly stay involved in the creative scene of Dundee and you'll surely find me wandering around. Come chat, lets collaborate, lets prosper.