Yeah, so, I got home from a lovely weekend in Peterborough this afternoon, then I had a long and fruitful shift at work. I managed to put my "hello, I'm very important and calling from the health unit" voice on, so everybody I called did the study, except for a 91 year old with hearing problems. 91 year olds shouldn't own phones.
I was talking avidly with my artist friends about a show I've been thinking about. It would feature me in a performance art piece, fasting and doing various pulls for the days of the show...ie, one day I would be chained to the gallery wall with suspension hooks, the next it would be my lips, etc. Along with it would be various art pieces exploring asceticism as a vehicle for enlightenment. There would be biblical texts/images on the walls concerning Jesus' 40 days in the desert, and maybe some lizardman for good measure. You get the gist. Well, my artist buddies were stoked about it, and so they invited me in on a collaborative show for February downtown. I've got issues though. Our works explore alarmingly different themes; theirs is very war/famine based. very dark. I fear that the performance aspect would be lost to "Oh! look! disturbing work on the walls! And look! A girl attached to said wall by hooks! Oh my God, are they REAL?"
As a double edged sword, not only am I stubborn when it comes to how my work will be integrated into others' pieces, I'm completely inarticulate when it comes to the actual meaning of the work...which makes it impossible for my friends to try to meet me half way. I need to make an artist statement as regards this piece. I'm kind of excitied about what the guys have to add so far. They were talking about constructing a bed of nails for the audience to interact with. Yummy.
1 comment:
this all sounds rather exciting. get painting you.
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