Negotiations, Round One and Two

 

For Twelve Months Notice IV and V German artist Susanne Palzer and British artist Liz Hall explored layers of 'negotiation' within collaboration. Setting only basic parameters, like start and end points for example, they devised several performance pieces in which they were mostly 'negotiating' without knowing what the other's intentions were. For the artists it is important that the work can be read in numerous ways, viewed through the prism of purely artistic collaboration with all the negotiations this process demands or with an awareness of a possible political subtext.