Iconostasis inhabits a liminal space, hovering somewhere between reverie and spectacle, hesitantly attempting to map the troubled psychic territory of our millenarian obsessions, anxieties, daydreams and nightmares
‘ ... But of the explorers of the infinite and marvellous things of the inmost mind, that which is before thought ... They are the makers of images and seekers of God. These of the living hand, the makers of epics, the tellers of tales, fantastic, compelling, beyond belief, of that which is and never was, worshippers of a fair impossible she, tramplers of the slime of the pit, clamberers of the rock of the holy mountains, dreamers of the rose and the dew, of milken hill and vine of immortality, these are they that tell of the true end of pleasure beyond becoming - who seek what is to be’
Francis Marsden, Iconostasis - introduction to: ‘The Focus of Life: The Mutterings of Aaos’. Austin Osman Spare
Iconostasis was produced for ACT 02, curated by Oliver Frost at the 291 Gallery London, May 2004
The performance was devised as a second stage in the collaboration between myself, Ernst Fischer and Helen Spackman, following Fallout at the Riverside Studios the previous year
Screening copy available on DVD by request
Iconostasis (excerpt)
