Performance

Performance is a primary part of the practice. Actions are staged privately, for the camera or before an audience, and their encounters are afterwards rebuilt in oil.

Heaven: a participant pours sauce over John Robinson’s head; he wears a gold costume, coated in red and dark liquids.

THREE-PART PERFORMANCE CYCLE

Hell / Purgatory / Heaven, 2026

Live performance with artist-composed sound
DeNode Foundation, Ghent, Belgium

I. Hell · II. Purgatory · III. Heaven

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Crumpled Heads: John Robinson seated before a cardboard backdrop, wearing a mask built from crumpled prints of his own face.

STANDALONE PERFORMANCE

Crumpled Heads, 2025

Performance for camera, 3 min 16 sec
Artist’s studio, Worcester, UK

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Flowerhead: John Robinson in a black track jacket, his head covered in fresh flowers threaded into a wire armature.

STANDALONE PERFORMANCE

Flowerhead, 2024

Durational performance for camera, colour and sound, 30 min 44 sec
Artist’s studio, Worcester, UK

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