Multiple roles
Developing the ‘Manse’ characteristics I love the idea of a split personality and this represented in two very different looks. Yet again the theme of a mixed identity keeps coming up in my work. This makes reference to my own personal family tree with relatives who lived in India, immigrants we believe were from Portugal. As a child and teenager my darker features would attract positive and negative attention. I am also very interested in how we perform various roles in our daily lives such as mother, wife, manager, artist, educator, to simply serving customers in a bag shop. Although I do love to look at performance artist work, I am much more inspired by the daily performance of everyday life and popular culture characters. It is important for my performance to be more than something that is just looked at. I want to combine my creativity, research, and educational elements into an engaging performance. Could I somehow use alternative scripts, which are suggested by the audience? What if people could write an alternative use for an object from the museum? I see a character split into two people. I perform in side profile two different stories from the Cotton Mills in Manchester and Tampere.
I have my first a-n, Re:view meeting with Lowri Evans in a week’s time to present my work to her. Unfortunately due to her work commitments I have had to push our meeting earlier in the month as I originally planned on presenting to a number of people at the same time in Manchester. However this is not possible so I will have to do individual presentations. With my bursary I want to design a mini portfolio to give to my peers. My lovely husband has recently designed the Joana Vasconcelos exhibition graphics and I particularly like the colour, A4 folded, 4-sided guide. This is the sort of thing I want to produce to handout at my meetings. I have just had a baby and adjusting everyday to life with a new person in the world is taking a bit longer to get back into work mode. Although I am eager to keep on top of my project as art is such an essential part of my well being. Seeing my peers individually has made me realise how I want different information from each of them. I don’t want to bombard each person and I feel a feedback, emailed form would work best to reflect and get back to me at a later stage.
