Duration 56 (2008)

Director
Frank Camilleri

Duration 56 is a performance installation by Frank Camilleri within the ‘Queen Project’ of Icarus Performance Project (Malta).

The piece explores the concept and practice of duration, repetition, and improvisation within a simple structure of actions and tasks performed within an installation-type setting involving black benches and black mats, apples and pebbles, knives and toothpicks.

Duration 56 signalled a new departure for Camilleri. Though the process underwent for the piece was located firmly in the rigorous physical and vocal formation characteristic of the Project’s performances to date, and though it emerged from the Project’s performances of La Reina (2006) and RISK (2007), Duration 56 resists theatrical parameters.

The ‘Queen’ of Duration 56 can be said to be the temporal dimension of space and action shorn of considerations such as plot, character, and text. The piece was presented in the spirit of a durational installation with a human component.

Research on Duration 56 is currently being developed by Camilleri in Canterbury.

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