1979-1980 | 1591 Clark Street studio, Montreal, Quebec, Canada | 2024 Viewing, L’Endroit indiqué, Montreal, Canada.
This documentation of the performance Ann’s Dream was produced as a two-channel video presented in the Video/Performance Art in Quebec series for the Vehicule Art television station Art Montreal in 1980. Based on a dream of the performer and a children’s game, Scissors, Rock and Paper, the performance took place within a space delimited by a 7,6 X 7,6 m (25’ X 25’) sheet of translucent paper. A rope wrapped around the central column was attached to the waist of the performer, Ann Lyons. As she starts to walk and cut the paper before her, she created a spiral defined by the length of the rope as it unwound from the column. After four and three-quarter turns, she uncovered two rocks, put the scissors on one and broke them with the other. Performer: Ann Lyons. Technical support for the performance and documentation, Loren May, James Newman, Pierre Blanchette and Suzelle Levasseur, Stephen Schofield, Montreal, 1980. Digital re-editing: Guilhem Molinier 2017 et 2024.