Ok! So a slight delay… but its here. A collection of documentation photographs from my performance piece in the one of the smaller installation rooms last week.
The practice went well, i've spoken to our helpful video technicians about recording straight onto my external hard-drive in order to have a continuous video stream for around 3 hours.
I stopped the performance once the DV tapes had run out. So after 50mins i quickly got out of the freezing cold bath water i had been sitting in. Unfortunately, due to health and safety, i couldnt have an electric heater in the room with a bath tub full of water… hmmm wonder why.
Being blindfolded while creating a sculpture taken directly from the touch of my own torso was an interesting experience. At first i was nervous, and a little disorientated. But soon i became engulfed with the exploration of my person.
Im still deciding on wether or not to have the two projections, one next to the bath and one over it. Or just the one projecting over the water and clay structure. The latter was wonderful to watch. As my projected self lent forward to move the clay around i could see my projected arm moving over the actual clay structure – as if to still be moving layers from it.
I clay structure rather than sculpture because as the week continued the clay (which was a very smooth clay) had started to dilute into the bath water creating a murky mess of what it once was.
I hope you enjoy the photos.
P.S
I managed to do a cast of the space between my hands. I was rather pleased with the results, even if there was some cracking. Tomorrow i will take some photos before the big crit and hopefully be able to upload them soon. Im working 8 hours tomorrow night, so i doubt they will be uploaded before Wednesday evening.
