FICTIONAL INTRODUCTION rolling series

P E R F O R M E R 1: "Thank-you for being here. My name is Anne-Marie Creamer and I have come here to introduce my film ‘Treatment for Six Characters’.- Thank-you, thank-you!"

This image is from Fictional Introduction version 2 with masks and is part of a rolling series that also acts as a prologue to Treatment for Six Characters.

Performance, here enacted for camera.
4K single channel video,
approx 6 minutes duration,
In production, 2016.

"Fictional Introduction" is a rolling series of connected works that re-works an introduction Anne-Marie gave ahead of a screening of 'Treatment for Six Characters' at The Drawing Room Gallery/ The Tannery London, but here the introduction has been turned into a script.

The first version was enacted by British performance artist Jordan McKenzie. McKenzie presented himself as being Anne-Marie, reciting her words about the evolution of the work. The event acted as a meta-prologue to her film and drawing on both her own and Luigi Pirandello's ideas seeks to heighten the line between author-actor-character.

This second version was filmed at at Hotel Elephant artist studios and Gallery in April 2016 and extends the ideas of the series by using theatre masks.

Anne-Marie is currently developing a further iterations of this work with a team of actors - a 'swarm of Anne-Marie's' - all competitively, absurdly insisting they are the author of Treatment for Six Characters.

There is also an booklet featuring the script for 'Fictional Introduction', which currently exists in versions for one, three, six or ten voices/ people.

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Fictional Introduction, version 1

featuring Jordan McKenzie and took place with FLAC Group as part of their program NETWRK, in 2016.

Image above, 'Fictional Introduction, version 1' for 'Treatment for Six Characters':

As part of Flac Group's three month art-takeover of venue The Exhibit, London, 20 artists were challenged to respond to the local area with artworks that "react, build up or deteriorate" over the three month period between January - March 2016. On February 14th Anne-Marie presented "Fictional Introduction", as well as a screening of Treatment for Six Characters. "Fictional Introduction" re-works an introduction Anne-Marie gave ahead of 'Treatment' at The Drawing Room Gallery/ The Tannery London, but here the introduction has been turned into a script, in this first version enacted by British performance artist Jordan McKenzie. McKenzie presented himself as being Anne-Marie, reciting her words about the evolution of the work. The event is intended as a meta-prologue to her film and drawing on both her own and Luigi Pirandello's ideas seeks to heighten the line between author-actor-character.