Live Art: Unalmas
Temporary Installation, Newly Gallery (2003)


About Live Art Unalmas
This small bit of video footage is the only documentation we have of this work. Unalmas is the Hungarian word for boring. Essentially this temporary installation was an attempt to describe why Live Art is boring and propose some new ideas for both the use for the gallery and perhaps the development of Live Art to make it less so. Like much SPART this work is tongue in Cheek, although some people didn't find it too amusing. This isn't obvious from watching the video, where everyone seems to be having a good time.

The installation was composed of a series of three body outlines on the floor of the gallery drawn in masking tape. A meanifesto was places inside each body print. These were humourous in nature suggesting different uses for the gallery space, different uses for the people who had come's time and different uses for the people who make live art. From an aesthetic perspective, the aim was to mae a work that left the space empty. So that the work was not occupying the space and so the propositions that were being made through the work could - in theory - be fulfilled in the space.