In The Moment
Identity/Self
Sculpture/Light
Catharsis/Memory
Moving Image
Format: One to One Performance (2 Hours max) followed by 30 minute open viewing
A subtle body work that explores identity, visual judgement and definition. Participants will be asked to transpose their visual judgements directly onto the artists flesh. This will be followed by a 30 minute open viewing of the body.
'Define Me' experiments with the concept of identity as a fluid and socially constructed concept.
Identity is often discussed as a fixed construct, as if there is an inner essence of a person lying just beneath the skin. Western philosopher Foucault rejects this idea, suggesting there is no such thing as a 'real' identity within a person. Foucault believed that 'identity' is constructed and communicated to others in our interactions with them and that this is a shifting, transient construction.
By giving over responsibility for my identity I ask the viewer to construct for me a completely new 'self' based purely on blind judgement.
Showings
17/11/07 'In the Flesh' Festival,
Barbican Theatre, Plymouth
12/01/08 'Good Shit From Bristol' Weekender,
Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol