SCRATCHMARKS

7 Hour non stop performance at the INTERNATIONAL MULTIMEDIAL ART FESTIVAL 13 ODZACI, SERBIA September 4 2011. Photos by Robert Pugh.

'GRIMPEN'

A 5 hour performance by ritual performamnce artist, Shaun Caton

During 1998 or 1999 P.B. (Paul Burwell) asked me to inhabit one of the many sheds in his garden at 147 Knapp Road and live in situ as an ornamental hermit, receiving visitors from time to time.

Grotto as entry portal to shamanic dream journey made fluid via painting ghosts.
Shrine in grot hole, enclave in distilled eye cave.
Photographic relic repository transformed by psychic automatism.
Time stopping capsule with the possibility of encountering
the birth of pink & green.
Liquid travels around unfinished, unknown histories
mysterious root matrix.
Dogma of doggerel

Spanish Drawings

16 Ink drawings made whilst in Barcelona, May 2010.

Performance Images: 'The Eldritch Thrall'

Photographs taken by Julius Beltrame, of the recent performance with brownsierra, 'The Eldritch Thrall', at the Glassworks, Tactile Bosch, Llandaff North, Wales, on November 14th 2009.

Performance Images: 'Netherwhat'

Performance installation shots by Anna Hillman.

Performance Images: PS2 Gallery

A selection of photographs from my recent performance in Belfast at PS2 Gallery. Images by Faye Rossi.

' Maltese Venus ' (August 1^st 2009)

Performance at the Lower Baracca Gardens, Valletta, Malta using tiny drawings made on the flight to Malta in anticipation of the stone age earth goddess figurines at the Museum of Archaeology. Red cloth and white cotton gloves: the colours of Maltese flag. A homage to prehistoric culture. walking around the walled garden arches overlooking the Grand Harbour and Mediterranean sea.

SCRATCHMARKS ESSAY

Click here to read an essay by Dr Andrew Cochrane, Archaeologist and Curator. Andrew presents his thoughts about the performance SCRATCHMARKS.

‘Widdershins’ (Friday November 11^th 2011)

9 hour non stop performance by Shaun Caton at East Street Arts, Leeds.

‘Widdershins
moving counter clockwise,
against the grain.
The lunar circle dance of death
in pink quartz verbatim.
Song of the painted river stones.
Hum of the stink tuber.
Trapping the spiral.’

Shaun Caton 2011.

PERFORMANCES IN POLAND (October 2011)

October 12^th 14:00 hrs talk and film screening at National Museum of Wroclaw.

October 13^th 6 hour non stop performance at Museum of the Academy of Arts, Wroclaw.

October 19^th performance workshop at The Academy of Fine Arts Krakow.

October 21^st at 17:00 hrs 5-7 hour non stop performance at Bunkier Sztuki Galeria Krakow.

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'TRAUM SHAFT' (January 15^th 2011; 11am-7pm)

An 8 hour non stop prformance by Shaun Caton. Part of 'And Now I See A Darkness'

Catalyst Arts,
Ground Floor,
5 College Court,
Belfast. BT1 6BS.

forage in the blue future hinterland
eke into a place of skulls, breaks & bloodiness
into the cavity where words once sprouted
here is the dead world come alive momentarily
here is the time without numbers or names
there is the blood spiral swelling inside the stone
there is the animal inside burst open.

www.catalystarts.org.uk

'UNEARTHED' (June 22^nd - September 2010)

Exhibition of over 100 genuine prehistoric figurines from ancient Japan and Europe juxtaposed with contemporary art responses by living artists. I am exhibiting drawings and a painting of a Jomon Final Period Dogu clay head.

THE SAINSBURY CENTRE FOR VISUAL ARTS,
University of East Anglia,
64 The Close,
Norwich. NR1 4DH.

Check Centre website for opening hours.

'THE DEVIATIONS OF NATURE' (July 22^nd 2010,3-11PM)

8 Hour non-stop performance/installation for
E.P.I ZENTRUM,
Orangerie-Theater,
Cologne,
Germany.

New durational Performance partly inspired by the 1775 book by Regnault, (of the same title) the writings of Georges Bataille and poems of Paul Celan.

'DEVIATIONS. PART II' (July 25^th 2010)

Performance for film.

Kleine Paraenorm,
Bonn,
Germany.

The Wunderkammer (March 21^st 2010)

National Review of Live Art 30, The Arches, Glasgow, from 12:30 to 20:00. More information coming soon...

'netherwhat...' (October 1^st 2009)

a series of 4 related live performances at the Maurice Einhardt Neu Gallery, Shoreditch, London commencing October 1st 2009 with resultant installation ‘til 31.10.09

rusting needles penetrate hearts, bone needles driven into moist armatures, eidola & eidolon, riven, rooted, routed out... from blackened bole to carbuncular branch, stoppages &shadow sagas, slag & clinker heads, furrowed, grooved and withered, eating coloured downpour vapours, dreamed cosmologies of stick people covered in shit...

performance notes 2009

...happenstance... (September 6^th 2009)

... shelfed trenches trickle over sills, spindles & curls notch breath & bone dreams layered edges of dust spirals. Dead fingerplay. Broken in two, the shrine mound heaves, slope, quad, spikes, smell of ectoplasm, ghosts living in the bricked up wall. drawings: maps, ancient pathways, lost voices.

View the PDF to find out more about the ...happenstance... performance/installation at PS2 Paragon Studios Project Space Belfast, Sunday 6th September 2009.

Shadowplay (May 2009)

One day shadow play workshop at Great Oaks School, Southampton, May 19 2009. Paper cuts of grotesque faces and monsters created with the help of 120 children during an energised series of sessions. Projected big onto walls and screens. Drawings made on acetate sheets superimposed over shadows.

105 (March 2009)

105 drawings made during the performance 'Drawn from scratch' in ink gouache and pen on scraps of paper/card found and collected. The images chart the flow of the performance over a 2 day period and reveal a wealth of trance induced imagery. They would make an amazing publication as remnants of a process based live work. I am seeking funding to produce a book of high quality reproductions of these drawings.