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Past Projects with still images:
Doormat • Butterfly • Avoidance Tactics No. 1 Thru To 25 Taking The Personal Out Of Itself •Unaccompanied • Backward • You've Chosen Numero Uno If I Knew Now What I Knew Then • Where D'ye Get Those Eyes • You Don't Say Lonesome Standard Time • Every Blank Cries Shame • All Of Me, Why Not Take All Of Me De Hele Waarheid, Niets Anders - The Whole Truth, Nothing But • Ochone DOORMAT 2005 February *“Doormat”* Collaboration with Opera North & Bonington Gallery, Nottingham - Video images of Mozart’s Don Giovanni alongside real audio interviews of deplorable behaviour in relationships   [] more [] back to top [] AVOIDANCE TACTICS No. 1 THRU TO 25 2003/04 *“Avoidance Tactics No. 1 thru to 25”* Video/ Live Performance in collaboration with 9 female Honours students from RSAMD Contemporary Theatre Practice Course. December in Chandler Studio, RSAMD & The Arches in March for National Review of Live Art  [] more [] back to top [] UNACCOMPANIED VIDEO INSTALLATION 2003 Spring *“Unaccompanied” *creating new Video Installation working with non-nationals in Gent, Belgium for the Time Festival & in Glasgow (city centre shop) July 03  [] more [] back to top [] BACKWARD 2002 Autumn “Backward” Large-scale new performance & video piece involving 11 performers aged 9 – 67. Writer/ Director. Research & Development stage funded by Scottish Arts Council  [] more [] back to top [] YOU'VE CHOSEN NUMERO UNO Based around the ‘Blind Date’ television game show, three local residents of Banff describe an ideal date with themselves whilst discussing attraction and relationships. Developed from an earlier piece ‘If I Knew Now What I Knew Then’’, where I morph into a male version of myself, section entitled ‘I Fell In Love With My Doppelganger’ 2001 Spring - Thematic International Residency at Banff Centre, Alberta, Canada, (Up Close and Personal)  [] more [] back to top [] IF I KNEW NOW WHAT I KNEW THEN 2001/02 "If I Knew Now What I Knew Then" – solo performance & video, created as part of ‘Scotland’s Year of the Artist’. Residency/ collaboration with Stirling University’s Psychology Department (Face Perception Lab). Touring: Dublin Sculptor’s Society; Catalyst Arts, Belfast; G12 Glasgow; Powerhouse Nottingham; Prema Gloucestershire; Traverse Theatre Edinburgh /The Scotsman (Joyce McMillan)/: “Words, music & film, stay in the mind like something strong & healing. The overall effect is beautiful & full of a kind of soul-saving gentleness. Rutherford’s vision is ultimately uplifting”.  [] more [] back to top [] WHERE D'YE GET THOSE EYES 2000 “Where D’ye Get Those Eyes” - solo performance at Edinburgh’s Book Festival  [] more [] back to top [] YOU DON'T SAY 1997 “You Don’t Say* – BBC2/ Arts Council England commissioned short film. Writer/ Performer. Collaboration with artist John Carson. The Observer: “The highlight of the series; is the universal tale oflove gone sour. In its compressed wit, it is better than many afull-length film” Donna Rutherford and John Carson are, respectively, Scottish and Irish performance artists who work with new forms of "story telling" - quirky and sometimes disturbing narratives often fuelled by alcohol. They joined forces for the first time for this film. A fast moving, fractured conversation between a woman and a man charts the ups and downs of a relationship. Like most relationships and the arguments that are such a feature of them, the story owes little to conventional logic. We can only gasp in amazement as the couple go dancing across the gender divide, realizing the impossibility of a perfect relationship. Lois Keidan [] back to top [] LONESOME STANDARD TIME 1997 “Lonesome Standard Time” – Music-Theatre funded by SAC & GCC. Scottish tour. Writer/ Director Aberdeen Journal: ” …walks a gang plank of improbabilities, dives head first into a strange sea and lives to tell the tale in a language that can only be described as extraordinary”  [] back to top [] EVERY BLANK CRIES SHAME 1996 “Every Blank Cries Shame” – solo performance in collaboration with sound artist Matt Wand. NRLA/ CCA commission. Toured UK till 1999. The Herald: “Rutherford has the idiosyncratic turn of phrase and febrile twist of the imagination that enables her to spike the expected moment with some sudden, disconcerting flash of insight … an artist of consummate understanding, compassion and onstage finesse”  [] back to top [] ALL OF ME, WHY NOT TAKE ALL OF ME 1995 “All of Me, Why Not Take All of Me” – Performance/Video collaboration. Arts Council of England Live Art Commission. Writer/ Performer/ Director The Herald: “The text mixes in telling fragments of song, a shrewdskein of myth and children’s story that edges the personal testimonies into something more universal, a realm of vulnerabilities, frustrations and hopes that is, all of us”  [] back to top [] DE HELE WAARHEID, NIETS ANDERS [THE WHOLE TRUTH, NOTHING BUT] But – Music-Theatre. Created in Ghent, Belgium. Toured Belgium & UK.Involved Turkish, Flemish, Scottish & Bosnian musicians. Barclays New Stages Winner & funded by International Initiatives. The List: “Rutherford holds out the promise of a new and accessible angle on national and cultural identities”  [] back to top [] OCHONE 1993 “Ochone” – solo performance. Platform Artist at National Review of Live Art at ICA, London. Toured UK, Belgium & Denmark in 1993/94. The Herald : “Acute observation on love, trust and the shattering of illusions”  [] back to top [] |