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MANUEL VASON

PERFORMING PHOTOGRAPHY TO SEE OTHERWISE

CURRENT PROJECTS

2021 - Ongoing

Unframing Photography

Unframing Photography aims to expose photography as a technology of illusive control.

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2014 - Ongoing

The PhotoPerformer

The PhotoPerfomer is the name of my alter ego as well as a conceptual personae I created to perform photography.

2000 - Ongoing

ArtExchange

Art Exchange is a ongoing project of creative collaboration between myself and a growing number of international artists.

2014 - Ongoing

DARC

DARC is the abbreviation for Documentation Action Research Collective.

OLDER PROJECTS

2015

Replay, Rethink, Reframe

Jumping in and out of the frame, in front and behind the camera, outside conventional photography, above self-portraiture, into the gap of performative imagination.

2012-2015

Double Exposures

Performance as Photography | Photography as Performance

2011-2015

STILL_MÓVIL

“In STILL_MÓVIL each choreographer actively performed stillness in a way that offers insight into the lived experince as ‘pure movement’.”

2010-Ongoing

I Believe In

“I believe in – the act of photography
Through a process of imagination I live a parallel reality:
I believe I desire, I exchange.

2009 - 2016

Becoming An Image

Becoming an Image is the title of a series of workshops and exhibitions, which signal Vason interest in developing his collaborative methodology with a group of participant artists/collaborators.

2003 - 2007

Encounters

Encounters is an extensive collection of Manuel Vason’s photographic collaborations with artists working in performance.

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1999 - 2001

Oh Lover Boy

Oh Lover Boy is the result of a two year collaboration with performance artist Franko B during which Vason followed him and documented every single live performance in UK and Europe.

1998 - 2002

Exposures

Exposures is Manuel Vason’s first collection of collaborative photographs with 19 of the most acclaimed and controversial practitioners in Britain in the early 2000s:

1999 - Ongoing

Theatre of the Face

Theatre of the Face is an ongoing collaboration between Ernst Fischer and Manuel Vason exploring the face as a proscenium

1998-2003

Live Gallery

Live Gallery is Manuel Vason’s first project which it led him to transform a photographic session into a performance and portraitrature into collaboration.

A SELECTION OF MANUEL VASON'S VIDEO PROJECTS IS AVAILABLE ON HIS VIMEO CHANNEL, CLICK HERE TO OPEN

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