What interests me is my identity, a
complex duality of all the diverse pieces that come together to create my
puzzle. I am interested in how I relate to my surroundings and how others in my
surroundings relate to me. I am aware of what is happening around me and when I
take on the role of being the one in front of the camera, I am hyperaware of
myself and want to make the audience hyperaware of my presence as well. My relationship
with how my performance provokes responses from those around me often tells the
course of my pieces.
I primarily focus in video
performance art which has been a development over the course of the past two
years. I work with other mediums and enjoy testing my limits and breaking
various boundaries and seeing how far I can push my discomfort and push it far
enough to make witnesses just as captivated or uncomfortable. Sometimes the act
of doing is more powerful than the act of stating. The presumed humiliation and
exposure of vulnerability, for me is what empowers my pieces. I can only hope
that the strange acts of locking myself in a box for 6 hours, layering my face
in acrylic, wrapping myself in 200 yards of plastic wrap and covering myself in
mache will stir up some discourse.
No comments:
Post a Comment