David Medalla's Tribute to Shoe Taylor Guinness At Changing Channels Berlin 2003

David Medalla will perform seven impromptus collectively entitled "Trembling" ("Zitternd") in Berlin during :Changing Channels" --- "London Biennale Pollination" ---curated by Adam Nankervis, Bill Allen and Marianne Wagner-Simon. David will dedicate "Trembling" to the memory of the late Shoe Taylor Guinness, artist, singer and dancer extraordinaire.

Shoe, David and Adam collaborated on various performances in England and Europe. David first met Shoe in Paris, during the "Live/Life" exhibition at the Musee d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, curated by Hans Ulriich-Obrist, in 1996, when Shoe participated with Roberta Kravitz, Caroline Younger and Claudia Boulton, in a performance inside Adam and David's space in that show.

Shoe subsequently performed with David at the Casa Fernando Pessoa in Lisbon, in an evening dedicated to the Portuguese poet Pessoa, organised by Joao Simoes and Pedro Cabral Santo, of "Air Portugal", the group that opened the first London Biennale with a brilliant exhibition, curated by Isabel Carlos, of multi-media installations, at the Shoreditch Town Hall in 2000. "Air Portugal" invited other London Biennale artists (including Valerie Vivancos, Andreas Uhl, James Moores and Adam Nankervis) to share with them the vast space of the old Shoreditch Town Hall.

Shoe and David performed their "Homage to Isadora Duncan" at the British Museum in 2001.

Last year, Shoe, Adam and David performed their "Homage to Li Yuan-Chia", curated by Bruce Haines, at Abbot Hall Gallery in Kendal, Cumbria, England, where a retrospective of the late Chinese artist Li Yuan-Chia's art was mounted by Guy Brett assisted by Nick Sawyer. Shoe and David performed "Cakes from Cumbria", a ghost play, at the Palais des Beaux-Arts in Brussels, Belgium.

Shoe performed for the last time with Adam Nankervis this spring (2003) at the Metropole Hotel in Folkestone, Kent, England, in the exhibition "The Greatest Show on Earth", curated by Peter Fillingham and Jane Lee of KIAD University of Canterbury.

Shoe performed for the last time with David Medalla in the "Short and Sharp" evening of video, film, and live art, curated by Gulsen Bal, at the 291 Gallery on Hackney Road, London. In the same venue, last year, during one of the London Biennale evenings curated by Bill Allen, Edwina Orr and Lisa Jensen, Shoe sang beautifully in the performance devised by David Medalla entitled "Love Beckons Under a Starry Sky", with the participation of Marko Stepanov, Richard Niman, Marisol Cavia, Tiago Slewinski, Elissa Rosso, Kirsten Forkert, Peter Conlin, Sebastiaan Schlicker, Anna Niman, Marcela Benini, and other London Biennale artists.

Shoe's final performance was in Berlin, at the Kulturhaus Brauerei, on the evening of the spring equinox this year, in the gala "Kabarett", curated by Claudia Boulton. Among Berlin-based London Biennale artists who saw Shoe's final live performance was German painter Frank Schaepel, who is curating the exhibition "Sonne & Fleisch" for "Changing Channels".

David's "Trembling" impromptus ( for Shoe) will take place on different days throughout "Changing Channels", in a variety of locations all over Berlin, from the nymphs fountain and the "ufer" where swans congregate (both in Kreuzberg) to the Hunting Lodge of the Hohenzollerns in the Grunewald forest. David will announce the different days, times and venues of "Trembling" shortly before his participatory performance entitled "Oranges and Lemons" (inspired by a children's rhyming song about London bells), at the gala party to celebrate the opening of "Changing Channels", at the Umspannwerk, Paul-Lincke-ufer, 20-21, in Kreuzberg, Berlin, on Saturday, 23 August 2003, at 8 p.m.

To pay partially for the expenses of his trip to Berlin (most of which went to applying for a visa at the German Consulate in London, where David travelled to and from his Bracknell home for a period of two weeks), David will conduct the first of his AUCTION of BLACKOUT SHIRTS on the banks of the Wansee in the afternoon of the first Sunday in September (7th) 2003. The idea for this auction occured to David shortly after the blackout that occured in North America recently. Here is a chance to own an original art work by David.