Body cage,
performance, 7.11.20
performance, 7.11.20
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7.11.20 I think this video is fabulous! The look on my face is very strange; it looks as if I am almost smiling, and actually I think I was ...because it was funny! I was wondering, as ever, what the neighbours might think if they saw me out of their windows....This was the first time I 'wore' this piece and it was extremely uncomfortable to wear. The metal cuts into my shoulders as that's where the sculpture sits. I was also completely trapped, I would definitely have struggled to get out of it without help. I think I would have had to throw myself onto the grass and wriggle out! ( Maybe that's an idea for my next video?) I consequently felt rather panicky and claustrophobic, as well as amused.
As I begin to move, in the video, the clanking begins and the metal swings. It seems to come alive!
10.12.20 I posted the video on social media and also presented it to the MA Fine Art Informal Crit group. I had some very useful and interesting feedback about it:
- Avoid portrait when videoing with a phone
- 'I like that the bands looks as if it's not joined' ( Appartition, illusion?)
- Unexpected setting, suburban garden
- Film or still? Good contrast with the environment
- An object of torture
- Metal, medieval
- The person is important and that it's metal
- How about combining this with knitting somehow?
- Scold's bridle for the whole body?
Robert introduced the term pharmakon - cure/poison
As I begin to move, in the video, the clanking begins and the metal swings. It seems to come alive!
10.12.20 I posted the video on social media and also presented it to the MA Fine Art Informal Crit group. I had some very useful and interesting feedback about it:
- Avoid portrait when videoing with a phone
- 'I like that the bands looks as if it's not joined' ( Appartition, illusion?)
- Unexpected setting, suburban garden
- Film or still? Good contrast with the environment
- An object of torture
- Metal, medieval
- The person is important and that it's metal
- How about combining this with knitting somehow?
- Scold's bridle for the whole body?
Robert introduced the term pharmakon - cure/poison
Here are the screen shots of the feedback on Instagram and Facebook. Definitely some ideas to follow up here. Thanks, everyone. It's definitely a provocation!
And here are some pieces by the inspiring Comme des Garcons designer Rei Kawakubo, inspired by crinolines.
