Having started a blog on my website and struggling to keep it up to date, I was a bit hesitant about starting something I might not be able to keep up. Here goes.
I did not get in to Uni today because it snowed heavily. I felt like a caged animal as all my plans for work, lectures etc were thwarted. I even set off to go, but thought better of it as the roads were bad, so decided to stay home and re-think my work plans.
Hence, I am starting a blog.
I got quite a bit of work done during the past week, reviewing images, editing video footage. I got to the stage where I was so tired of seeing the same clips over and over that I started to dislike my ideas for the project and started to see them as tedious.
I have been enjoying reading, Staging Femininities: performance and performativity, by Geraldine Harris, who analyses 3 works of 3 artists. I find it inspiring to read about the work of other artists, particularly artists whose work embodies notions of gender and performativity.
I need to give a presentation next week of work associated with an essay I am researching. I am going to present this as a performance so I need to work out exactly what I am going to perform as I only have 10 minutes to make it meaningful.
The essay is going to reference the work of Bobby Baker and the presentation is in a lecture theatre so I may ‘perform’ a lecture. I think I will wear a boiler suit and a name tag to signify ‘male authority’. I will use powerpoint slides to create a frame for the performance and as an aid to demonstrating particular skills. The skills will be to do with braiding and knotting.
