“The performance takes place within the confines of a 240 cm x 500 cm raised platform. I spend the whole 8 hours performance writing on the platform on my knees. I write with my left hand – the opposite hand than I normally use to write.  My every day writing hand is immobilized behind my back. I write from right to left, and then left to right, and therefore I am always writing as I am moving. When I finish one layer of writing, I do another layer. Over the time, I cover the platform with linear layers of writing, It all started when I made a statement about my art work, and then proceeded to dissect the statement so I had a number of individual words. The words are separated out and placed at random.

I consider each word as an individual concept in art. I visualize the word then I write it down with my opposite writing hand. I do this because I feel we are so judged by what we say in art - and by dissecting my own art statement, and using the words at random, I am making my own philosophical statement about the validity and weight of those ideas.”

John Court
Laivaniemi
February 20th 2008

John Court is educated from Camberwell school of Art and Design og Norwich school of Art and Design BA Honours Fine Art Sculpture.

John Courts performance ART TRA is a 8 hour durational piece that expresses physically the frustration and confusion dyslexia causes for him. It is a continuation of the body of work he has produced over the last ten years as a professional performance artist using the materials of traditional image making from the history of art: pencils, erasers, paper and paint. Instead of a conventional statement, Court is submitting an illustration of dyslexia.