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2008 Nov “Medley of Denial” - solo live performance/ video commissioned by West Dunbartonshire Violence Against Women Partnership 16 Days of Action. Toured round community venues, schools and women's refuges.
"When a person is at sea she seems very small and insignificant. The sea is still a place where a following wind can change to a head wind in just a few minutes, pleasure can turn to pain and the mundane can turn into a matter of life and death".
2006/07 “Ochone Ochone” solo live performance & video. National Review of Live Art presented in Tramway 1; Edinburgh Fringe; TULCA Festival Galway; Openport Festival Chicago
“I enjoy dancing. I enjoy watching other people dance, especially when you catch them there, lost in the moment. Trouble is, there is no “in the moment”. Inescapably we leave the trail of our past behind us.”
Review - The Herald: “...more than an engagingly delivered series of quirky confidences... dealing with the ongoing grief and moral dilemmas that are Iraq, I doubt there are works that touch on that territory so tenderly and with such humanity.”
2003 Spring & Summer “Unaccompanied” Video Installation working with people in Gent, Belgium for the Time Festival & in Glasgow (city centre shop). Individuals were invited to sing popular & traditional songs from their own land to camera, without music. So a double meaning of Unaccompanied - performing without music, but also singers outwith their original home, away from a shared language, landscape and shared history.
2002 Autumn “Backward” Performance & video piece involving 11 performers aged 9 – 67 (Research & Development stage only)
1997 “You Don’t Say" BBC2/ Arts Council England commissioned film. Writer/ Performer. Collaboration with John Carson.
Lois Keidan (Live Art Agency) "… Rutherford and Carson work with new forms of "storytelling - quirky and sometimes disturbing narratives. We can only gasp in amazement as the couple go dancing across the gender divide, realizing the impossibility of a perfect relationship”
The Observer: “The highlight of the series; is the universal tale of love gone sour. In its compressed wit, it is better than many a full-length film”
ARCHIVE
2008 Nov “Medley of Denial” - solo live performance/ video commissioned by West Dunbartonshire Violence Against Women Partnership 16 Days of Action. Toured round community venues, schools and women's refuges.
"When a person is at sea she seems very small and insignificant. The sea is still a place where a following wind can change to a head wind in just a few minutes, pleasure can turn to pain and the mundane can turn into a matter of life and death".
2006/07 “Ochone Ochone” solo live performance & video. National Review of Live Art presented in Tramway 1; Edinburgh Fringe; TULCA Festival Galway; Openport Festival Chicago
“I enjoy dancing. I enjoy watching other people dance, especially when you catch them there, lost in the moment. Trouble is, there is no “in the moment”. Inescapably we leave the trail of our past behind us.”
Review - The Herald: “...more than an engagingly delivered series of quirky confidences... dealing with the ongoing grief and moral dilemmas that are Iraq, I doubt there are works that touch on that territory so tenderly and with such humanity.”
2003 Spring & Summer “Unaccompanied” Video Installation working with people in Gent, Belgium for the Time Festival & in Glasgow (city centre shop). Individuals were invited to sing popular & traditional songs from their own land to camera, without music. So a double meaning of Unaccompanied - performing without music, but also singers outwith their original home, away from a shared language, landscape and shared history.
2002 Autumn “Backward” Performance & video piece involving 11 performers aged 9 – 67 (Research & Development stage only)
1997 “You Don’t Say" BBC2/ Arts Council England commissioned film. Writer/ Performer. Collaboration with John Carson.
Lois Keidan (Live Art Agency) "… Rutherford and Carson work with new forms of "storytelling - quirky and sometimes disturbing narratives. We can only gasp in amazement as the couple go dancing across the gender divide, realizing the impossibility of a perfect relationship”
The Observer: “The highlight of the series; is the universal tale of love gone sour. In its compressed wit, it is better than many a full-length film”
