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William Hunt: Earth, Wind and Fire
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William Hunt's endurance related performances involve a degree of musical performativity played out under some situation of physical duress; hanging upside down, spinning on a turntable and most recently under water.
Put Your Foot Down, 2006, saw a black BMW turned into a make shift aquarium. Hunt filled the car with water, climbed into the driver's seat and taking deep gulps from an oxygen tank and sang out on exhalation.
Narrative, set up through song is frustrated by physical restraints, evoking feelings of threat, danger and self-destruction. Hunt places himself at the centre of a sculptural tableaux and enacts a relentless, endless return to absurdity, mindful of the futility of grand gestures yet bound to show off.
For this exciting new commission at the Westwerk Gallery, Hunt employs garden patio furniture; the patio heater, water butt, washing line and decking, creating a situation in which the body is at the mercy of earth, wind and fire.
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