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The skin crackles and darkens while I stand, fixed to the spot, passing a little lump of clay from palm to palm.
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Ellis wrote of his reaction to the first sight of the erupting volcano: > ″A spectacle, sublime and even appalling, presented itself before us. 'We > stopped and trembled.' Astonishment and awe for some moments rendered us > mute, and, like statues, we stood fixed to the spot, with our eyes riveted > on the abyss below.″ The Volcano Art Center was the Volcano House Hotel from 1877 to 1921.
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He continues, "The cries and groans were choked off by the fire and smoke; but his eyes, bulging from their sockets, rolled from side to side, appealing in vain for help." The scene that day stuck vividly in his mind and burned a sharp image in his brain. He finishes with, "Some of the crowd yelled and cheered, others seemed appalled at what they had done, and there were those who turned away sickened at sight. I was fixed to the spot where I stood powerless to take my eyes from what I did not want to see".
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Aggiss and Cowie began to work in film in 1994, with Beethoven in Love, shown on BBC2, in which Aggiss played a 'granite jawed singer who is both muse and demon, seducer and tormentor to Ludwig Van (Tommy Bayley).'Allen Robertson, Time Out review quoted on Billy Cowie's website In 2002, they made the multi-award winning Motion Control,Motion Control documentation on the University of Brighton website shown on BBC2, Anarchic Variations which premiered at the Place in London, and Scripted to Within an Inch of Her Life, a live performance and four-screen installation deconstruction of Motion Control, which premiered at Kettles Yard, Cambridge, in 2004. Motion Control features 'a glammed up Aggiss, fixed to the spot in nameless, enclosed space, and the camera diving and circling around here. The camera lunges at speed towards the centre of her body like a ravenous carnivorous plant, and Aggiss battles against it with all the wiles of a performer....Playing out basic issues of feminist understanding – this woman is limited in movement, trapped in her physical body, a figure of constructed glamour and limitless fascination, but bursting with energy and self- assertion, playing the game as hard and wilfuly as she can.
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