Between the last time I blogged on here and now I have been incredibly busy.
I have:
Set up an exhibition at the Hive
Performed a Live performance
Put the finishing touches to the print project
Had an artist meeting to help promote art in Worcester
and came up with a performance lecture.
Right where do I begin?
The Hive Exhibition
The hive exhibition was one of the first things I spoke about way back in October. Well. The exhibition has been set up and has ran from the 22nd of April and comes down tomorrow. It has been an experience and a half. and It was great to have my work show along with others in such a central point in Worcester. My work in the exhibition was ‘Conjunction’ video, performance, ‘Park the Bench’ video performance and a Performance I have since called ‘Abode’ (appearance of appearance).
Abode
I will start with the New performance I called Abode. For this performance I combine 3 props which I had used this year.
The head
The Door
and the Bench
I wanted a performance that focused on doing. Something that also refined me to a smaller space, I had spoken about performing under the arches before but you may have noticed, earlier on, a image of a brick curved wall.
I found this pace particularly interesting the textures the derelict type nature of the bricks. and the general aura and sound of the space. I wanted the performance to be missed but have the potential to be seen. offset from the main Hive site the arch provide this for me. I wore the head as a extra element of the incongruous. An appearance of appearance. Visually the performance worked well sounds of the loud bangs echoed around the arch and were particularly satisfying, but, the manner in which the performance was witnessed particularly distressed me. Originally I was going for a live feed but for various reason the feed wouldn’t work I decided to film a part of the performance the take it into a studio space to try to fool people. between the weather turning for the worst and the video becoming a film screening this got lost along the way.
Park the Bench and Conjunction were shown on all the main screens in the Hive this meant that my theme of a journey was able to be experienced as a journey while journeying around the hive, a journey within a journey.
Print Project
Above is the box for the print project portfolio containing prints from the whole second year Fine Art students.
WXW
Warwickshire university and Worcester University have teamed up in creating a group based on promoting art in Worcester. The first event a artist picnic at the garage studios in Worcester on the 17/05/2016. I personally hope that this really kicks off.
Performance lecture
Above are two photo prints taken from the performance lecture I am developing as part of my final hand in, I will be performing this on Monday. the two images taken from my 4th practice with the materials and contexts.
