I have a lot of catching up to do on my blogs… oops! Too be honest ive been really busy, so finding time to sit at the computer has been difficult.
My performance based work in Elyisum gallery went really well. I had forgotten it was the 21st that Wales was playing Ireland in the rugby, and since Elysium is right next to the train station – i had a lot of people passing by.
I went into the performance with the intention to test what it was like to do a live performance, to see how it changed my work and to not worry about having a final piece.
The performance was taken from a previous untitled piece, a video installation that involved me doing a blind sculpture in a bath. This time i used the site of the bed, still blindfolded, trying to express a physical representation of the emotional self.
It was surprisingly easy to focus on what i was doing and not what i could hear or where i was. I was shocked by the photographs, i hadn't released how close the public actually was – i felt like that had crossed into my personal space. Which is essentially wanted to happen within the artwork.
I was delighted to see the attention it brought to the gallery, people seeing me in the window, stopping, and then looking to see what the 'shop' was.
I think i will be performing again, i found the experience so informative and interesting – i'm glad i went through with it.
