2011年7月4日星期一

Like a good cabaret act

At first,Free DIY Wholesale pet supplies Resource! Allege appears to be a simple circus trick: a man balances a glass on his head,uy sculpture direct from us at low prices fills it with water and organises an increasingly complex series of manoeuvres. Flashes of darkness, fragments of music, Clement Layes shambles around the stage, his head bowed in intense concentration.

Like a good cabaret act, Layes builds the tension, slowly revealing the extent of his skill. Like any good Live Artist, he takes time to explain his movement vocabulary: the hunched shuffle, the meticulous shifting of glasses, water, bottles, bucket and watering can. The finale analysis, which fades to black, attempts to provide a specific meaning to each object. The intent is satirical.Not to be confused with RUBBER MATS available at your local hardware store

Layes' charisma is important: without it, his activities are an apparently meaningless rotation of the stage, a neurotic manipulation of random objects and an impressive balancing skill taken beyond all reason.

Yet by lacing the half-hour with wry humour,Save on hydraulic hose and fittings, he softens the stark simplicity of the act. And despite his spurious explanations, Allege does hide a broad comment on the distortions created by unnecessary pressure. Hunched as he is, Layes becomes forced into awkward lunges and reaches,The same Air purifier, cover removed. ever careful not to disturb the glass, even as it inhibits his movement. The repetitions are, at times, painfully slow but the artist's good humour, and self-parody, rescue Allege from being either pretentious or shallow.

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