STEPHEN BAIN
live performance maker
Gallery
DIY LIFE
February 12, 2016
A DIY Performance
Do-It-Yourself with the knowledge that you are becoming a better human. It’s fun, it’s easy, it will make you money. No experience necessary, no prior use of power tools required.
#DIYfriendships, #DIYpositivechange, #DIYperformance,#DIYdebtavoidance, #DIYreligion
Somewhere Series #5 - Cross St, Auckland
Te Uru Gallery, Titirangi, Auckland - They Come From Far Away - Feb 2016
THIS MEANS YOU
August 31, 2014
Created & performed as part of the Taipei Artist Village residency, Taiwan.
This Means You is a camouflage performance on the margins of certainty. A temporary structure unearths a fragile persona who teeters on being and not-quite-being with an urgent message to share.
Also performed at -
Turku New Performance Festival, FINLAND
They Come from Far Away, Te Uru Gallery, Auckland
Massey University Campus, Palmerston North
Meyers Park, Auckland
A video installation accompanies the performance, shot entirely in Taipei, it charts numerous sponteneous performances in and around the city.
HD 23mins
M&A - Senneby+Goldin
September 30, 2013
Goldin+Senneby have been working concurrently with New Zealand’s playwright Jo Randerson, who has been scripting a speculative scene for the gallery. The actor, Stephen Bain, will be rehearsing the script on a daily basis. The theatrical production is entirely dependent on the speculations’ financial performance. The rehearsals will continue as long as the trading budget lasts.
The project speculates on a variety of issues like the precariousness of labour in conjunction to the variations in funding both from private and public sources. It problematizes the relationship between the world of art and that of finance, against the backdrop of globalization and its local consequences.
Artspace
The Long White Cloud - William Pope L.
August 02, 2013
Performer for William Pope L. installation film The Long White Cloud
August 2013