The aim of the work is to develop relationships between five established and experienced artists from different disciplines and to enable Michael to return to the devised performance territory he inhabited with Metro-Boulot-Dodo. 24 Hour Stubble takes his interdisciplinary work into new directions and contexts as it brings together a broad range of practitioners and partners to reach new audiences.
Following recent live art projects, 24 Hour Stubble continues Michael’s ongoing research interests into notions of duration, loss and the performance of absence and presence. The work is a forensic investigation into the act of shaving and the growing and cutting of facial hair as a metaphor for madness, male-ness, time passing and aging.
The project takes Michael’s live art out of a private one-to-one context e.g. a car, a bench - into a more public site-specific performance space e.g. a theatre, a gallery, a warehouse - and allows him to consolidate the many strands of his practice and professional experience as a writer, live artist and dramaturge. The piece will sit somewhere between a durational performance installation and a play.
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