Monday, 30 April 2012
Thursday, 26 April 2012
Monday, 20 February 2012
space sketches
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| marking through the space order and layers creating a texture through materials |
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| performance sections. |
Thursday, 16 February 2012
Tempting Failure - Sunday 4th March
12 pieces have been curated by the body-artist Thomas John Bacon to engage with an ethos of Tempting Failure as part of a new live art & transgressive performance platform in London on Sunday 4th March at the ]performance s p a c e [
tickets £5 on the door
The artists featured are: Danielle Abulhawa, Kris Canavan, Nicola Canavan, Ernst Fischer, Mark Flisher, Sardonik Grin, Holly Johnson, Nick Kilby, Mark Leahy, Taylor LeFin, Helena Sands, Allan Taylor, Tracing the Pathway, & Traumata.
This platform, originally to be staged in Bristol, became the victim of censorship - see recent article below......
Saturday, 5 November 2011
images....
A girl stayed in the space for 1/2 an hour playing with the objects once the performance had finished. She wrote "i am strength" beneath my text.
Friday, 4 November 2011
(threading. tiny acts of repair)
ink drip
disintegration
changeability. trace
Transgre
ssion.
Stain. Permanence. Proof. Evidence.
What’s the difference between a mark and a trace?
Permanent/explicit action v's an ephemerality, a possibility of… implicit action
Is trace the process of loosing a mark???
Love the notion of dialogue between people/words/spaces or things – a series of simple exchanges offering/insight new knowledge/understanding.
Began reading MOB’s conversation with Ron Athey – felt a little strange (remembering RA seeing a piece at the gallery at Warwick uni….) not sure how my practice would ever ‘fit’ into this world….of blood letting/ I am not marked. Not enduring a physical condition/illness yet still feel a connection or a need to display/mark/reveal my female flesh – possibly some kind of questioning relating to validity??? Belonging. The histories/traces housed within me. Can I make valid body work - interior marks?? Yet still related to the idea of performance - making ‘something’ visible through and because of the body.
Interested in how this related to the notion of autobiography – to also be about something not just navel gazing….MOB aiming at “an intersubjective" experience between himself (the performing body) and the spectators”
I have to consider (re) the context of being a female performer using her body explicitly, needs to make sense. Vulnerability/exposure/sensuality…
MOB – engaged with the endurance survival element to the work – not just in relation to the explicit sickness – watching his sick body surviving well…..(loved this phase).
MOB's use of materials – instant draw and connection to the work….watching the “juice of his wound” (RA) the physical coughing up /issues relating to decency, social acceptability – being taken and rubbed as a material substance onto his chest then rubbing in glitter - the materials/bodily secretions becoming a real and ready living reminder of the action – marking the impact of the act. How does the particularity of the material affect the viewer’s ability to connect to and remember the action? intimacy?? (do you need a one on one to experience it???)
Interested in the use and context of the glitter (how does this related to the choices I made ??) clear contextual reference to other performance artists (DJ/mob/dh) the interplay with gay/queer drag parifinalier – the divide between the jam jars of mucus and the ‘sparkling’ pretty boy seen. The artifice of the act and the desire to offer a step away from the current situation – substance used as deviance – playful/joy. Does MOB do this or does his use of the glitter material substance to just imbed himself further into his "own grimness"? Does this is any way relate to my ideas surround the use of glitter in performance as some kind of “ perfect stain”? The false/sweet artifice being skin surface texture? what the fuck is on the inside
Mark – inside and outside of the performance/self
Trace
Material
Stain - - - - - - - - - - - permanence
Disintegration - - - - - Loss – because of /through endurance
Moment - - - - - - - - - -the presence/the live act
Risk - - - - - - - - - because of/being in or out of control
Intimacy - - - - - - vulnerability
Distance - - - - - - - the gap
Memory
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