Darby, Lisa

21/07/2009

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Lisa Darby comes from Bedford. She is an assistant. On the plinth she is going to perform a piece for the whole hour without wanting to be identified. She is actually scared of heights. The theme is absence and time with the parameters being 1 hour, empty plinth, Trafalgar Square. She is going to use the plinth as a kind of canvas. She will start by facing Nelson's column and will write an exert from a letter written by Lady Hamilton after Nelson's death. She will then face Canada House and draw a map of Canada presenting a random selection of names of army personnel who have died in the Afghanistan war from each province and will then turn and facing the National Gallery she will write a list of names of female artists. Finally she will turn to face South Africa and write an exert from a speech Nelson Mandela gave when he was on trial.

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