PERFORMANCE

1985 • Performance Surfing

“All is myth –
when two people gather together to make a myth,
the myth becomes reality”

~ Performance Surfing Catechism, 1985

With the Zap housed in a permanent location on Brighton Seafront, Ian Smith and I set up a religion based on surfing. It involved a cast of hundreds – musicians, performers including the fabulous Desperate Men, art installations and orchestrated chaos.

Sacrifice of surfboard l to r: Ian Smith, Neil Butler and Phil Hall, 1985
Sacrifice of surfboard, 1985
l to r: Ian Smith, Neil Butler and Phil Hall
image: Richard Paul Jones