An idea that I’ve had floating around in my thoughts for a while makes use of a further element of abusive masculine language about women.
It stems from the Dapper Laughs language and the language aspects in a lot of Sarah Lucas’s work.
The good old online slang dictionary has an entire page dedicated to slang terms for vulva. One specific term caught my attention and seems to have stuck in my brain: Beef Curtains.
Notebook page of initial idea
Project details:
create a large sculptural piece of work
theatrical set of curtains made of sliced beef
luxuriously draped
viewers must walk through the curtains as though an entry way into my degree show
Draped Curtains, available at:
For a while I’ve needed to test different methods of preserving the sliced beef so that I can achieve two things:
– A fabric-like material that can be hung and draped like curtains
– A preserving method that keeps the beef from rotting too much while displayed in this way over a period of two weeks of the degree show.
I’m lucky enough to own a meat slicing machine and a vacuum packing machine so have been testing this method of preserving the meat.
I’ve just been buying cheap joints of meat when it’s on offer in the supermarket.
Meat slices in vacuum sealed packaging, frozen and refrigerated to test for preservation quality
Testing stitching methods using sewing machine
Packed and stitched slices left out in open air after freezing and refrigeration to test for preservation
I’m looking forward to seeing how the piece progresses. I like the idea of stitching it all together and seeing it grow. I imagine it like some sort of grotesque patchwork. An interesting mix of feminine and masculine.
