YELLOW
Tableau Vivant - Performer is present before audience enter space. Audience is free to come and go.
Performer sits on top of bucket, back straight.
AUDIENCE ENTER
1. Performer submerges skirt inbetween legs into water. Pulls out material. Rubs material together in 8/8 time. Bubbles arbitrarily for
2. Performer holds scrubbed material out to audience. Looks audience in the eye. Resubmerges material into water. Continues scrubbing in 8/8 time.
3. Performer wrings material, from bottom to top forming a crown of bubbles at tip. Blow bubbles off tip. Take tip in mouth. Bite material. Stand up holding material in teeth. Bare teeth and shake head.
Repeat loop, sequence variable. Duration: 4 hours.
AUDIENCE LEAVE
DRESS
Sunflower yellow dress, shirt collar, short sleeves, 4 gold buttons down the front, gold belt. Skirt of dress is volumous, stretching to 5 meters in lenght.
BUCKET
White bucket, placed center, the seat and site of action.
Bucket filled to the top with water and bubble bath.
Bucket holds 80 litres of water.
BUBBLE BATH
Bubble bath for bucket = 1litre of Sailor Matey brand.
Bubble bath for skirt = 500ml of Mermaid Matey brand, poured into lap.
LIGHTING
Room dimly lit, bucket/performer area simply spotlit.
Amanda Coogan, Dublin 2010
Map 1
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Yellow map drawing 1
medium: black tea with scratches
2010

Yellow map drawing 2
medium: black tea with scratches
2010

Yellow map drawing 3
medium: black tea with scratches
2010

Yellow map drawing 4
medium: black tea with scratches
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Yellow map drawing 5
medium: black tea with scratches
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Yellow map drawing 6
medium: black tea with scratches
2010
Map 3
Music
Included three pieces of music for Yellow.
1. Franz Schubert Impromptu in A flat, D 899 No. 4.
The Sofia Recital. Pianist: Svjatoslav Richter.
2. George Frideric Handel; Messiah
Messiah: 6 Chorus: And He shall purify the sons of Levi.
Academy of St Martin and the Fields, & Sir Neville Marriner.
3. George Frideric Handel; Messiah
Messiah: 5 Air: But who may abid the day of his coming.
Academy of St Martin and the Fields, & Sir Neville Marriner.
2008 – Schubert’s Impromptu was used.
2009 – Handel’s Messiah: 6 was included.
2010 – Handel’s Messiah ; 5 will be added.
Included three pieces of music for Yellow.
1. Franz Schubert Impromptu in A flat, D 899 No. 4.
The Sofia Recital. Pianist: Svjatoslav Richter.
2. George Frideric Handel; Messiah
Messiah: 6 Chorus: And He shall purify the sons of Levi.
Academy of St Martin and the Fields, & Sir Neville Marriner.
3. George Frideric Handel; Messiah
Messiah: 5 Air: But who may abid the day of his coming.
Academy of St Martin and the Fields, & Sir Neville Marriner.
2008 – Schubert’s Impromptu was used.
2009 – Handel’s Messiah: 6 was included.
2010 – Handel’s Messiah ; 5 will be added.
Map 4

Yellow score 1

Yellow Score 2

Yellow Score 3

Yellow Score 4
Map 5
Video
3 minutes, from a live performance, duration: 6 hours
at the Oonagh Young Gallery, Dublin July 2008
Video shot during the final hour.
3 minutes, from a live performance, duration: 6 hours
at the Oonagh Young Gallery, Dublin July 2008
Video shot during the final hour.