New Video works.
These pieces have been long in the mix, the first, titled Address is the second piece of work devised from Davida Hewlett’s Introduction to Performance Art Course: Level 2, and began with the brief of performing to camera, to raise awareness of the differences between performing live/ recorded. In response to this brief I made the aforementioned piece, where I read my favourite piece of writing, Sol Lewitt’s letter to Eva Hesse. I made a few adjustments to make it either more inclusive or more anonymous (haven’t quite worked out what yet) but the piece was shot in a very dark room, one as the text is not my own, and therefore I do not want to attach my face to the text, and secondly as in the past I have read the text to motivate myself somewhat, so it works as a motivational letter to myself and every other artist who was gone through the same pitfalls. This, and I wanted to bring the text to as many people’s attention as possible: its a beautiful piece of writing.
The other new piece, Dawning is a more experimental work, which was created a long time ago but only finished yesterday. I’m holding my cards quite close to my chest about this piece, but its a study into the ‘exhaustion and enjoyment’ scenario. It’s a lot more open to interpretation; I’ll let people make their own decisions on it. Both these new pieces are self-portraits, but on very different spectrums. I don’t know yet whether I use myself in video to be direct, or whether I enjoy the performative side of it, either way; let me know your thoughts.
