"DUNGBEETLE AND SISYPHUS" “Searching for inherent and interpreted purpose in daily activities.” A project in two parts to coincide with the Liverpool Independents Biennial.

The Artist uses Mythological Characters, insect life and Folk Tale Protagonists and brings them together in a place they have never met before. This could be a conversation, a play, a dialogue or monologue, but Birgit Deubner creates an unusual performance for the public realm, for an unsuspecting audience; and a film for exhibition in gallery contexts as well as waiting rooms and all manner of public spaces that are frequented and lingered in.

In this instalment of the project the setting was the architecturally and heritage rich part of old Liverpool. Private View: 25th September. 4 Jordan Street, Liverpool. Curated by Tony Smith.

Part two was performed and filmed in rural Germany. Curated and commissioned by Vanessa Bartlett, for exhibition at RED WIRE Liverpool. Private View: 14th November 2008.

A great thank you to LEON SETH for the camera work on both project parts and for his project development support !!!

(Sisyphus : punished in Hades for his misdeeds in life by being condemned to the eternal, futile, hopeless task of rolling a large stone to the top of a hill, from which it always rolled down again.)