FROM CONSTANCE AND FROM VIOLET
I am currently in the process of moving flats from Glasgow to Edinburgh.
I came across two old USB sticks I kept files on during my studies at Leeds University.
Here is an image and a piece of text, possibly related probably not…
04/05/2007
Ha – the non-performance of the half hour drawings, by wearing some kind of dress!
Ok so I didn’t measure the dimensions of the drawing in relation to my body – it is evident in the photographs how large the overall garment was. However this is somewhat irrelevant as they were to be worn what ever the circumstance – and at least I got a photograph. In fact the situation of the photo-documentation is interesting here as I had to direct someone who had never used an SLR before to take the photograph (this statement may be slightly hypocritical in relation to some of the photographs I have taken), so the realisation of the idea could only have happened with someone else present. It is relatable also to how the artist parades his ideas and art works in front of an audience and I think this ‘performance’ highlights this. The paradox of me coming up with the idea then building the suit by myself with the fact that I needed someone’s assistance in order to put the suit on and then to record the fact that it was on – highlights the importance of an audience in such forms of art. Performance has always been something that has been available to me aesthetically in order to dabble in, but only as an extension of some form of documentation, and it is interesting that in order to document such perspectives another person always has to be involved. This subtle form of interaction with another person in such situations is interesting in an indirect sense, such a sense that always gives way to the notion of someone else being there outside the frame of documentation, as either of us is documented in some kind of task – such a task that is essentially directed by the artist. The notion of control becomes evident here, as the artist remains the director in such situations.
