ARTISTS / SACH CATTS

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Sach Catts’ performance practice employs processes and techniques from a range of fields. He has drawn upon practices from street BMX, bicycle maintenance, the construction industry, bodybuilding and fitness training.

Sach Catts’ recent work is concerned with stress. Borrowing experimental practices from structural engineering he has undertaken a series of stress tests. In Warren Truss (2010) a model planar bridge truss was placed in a testing apparatus and placed under load through a cable and pulley system terminating in a sling. This sling was filled progressively with wet concrete until the truss failed (broke). The stress test has subsequently been applied to other articles. In Yield Strength (2011) Catts attempted to determine the ultimate tensile strength of Karl Marx’s Communist Manifesto, Adam Smith’s The Wealth of Nations and Niccolo Machiavelli’s The Prince. In these works objects are stripped of all subjective projections and reduced to their material properties. Catts’ only interest in them is at what point they fail. His contribution to the Performance Month will continue in this vein.

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