Dis-assembly
Images from public performance and from studio development. Commissioned by The Grange Projects: https://www.thegrangeprojects.org/ Stills from video by Marcia Mihotich.
This research installation performance developed from interests in domestic space and concepts of (un)homely, using with detritus building and packing materials, paint, plaster, card, wood, fabric. I wanted to creater assemblages, a trace or artifact from and of performance. In the residency context, the work developed in response to the site of an old farmhouse building. The performance actions re-curated, re-framed, re-purposed materials and the artist's body to examine aesthetics of aging. Discovering and applying 'high viz' fabric and paint disturbed the more organic aesthetic of the space. The performance activated overlooked materials through utility and functional processes of assembling, placing, carrying. Pouring plaster, gobs of clay, daubs of paint brought formless, abject and uncontrolled elements alongside the positioning of the body. A state of half dress had both playful and disturbing intention, drawing attention to the performers limbs and torso. Working live, I felt the queer absurdity of repeated and apparently functionless actions. I felt the strength and fragility of my own body set against these ephemeral materials.