LASERS!

I wrote about this in great detail in my journal, but essentially I continued playing with this idea of a permeable membrane, cutting holes into the Lycra to allow actual visible penetration. This also gave the dancers an authentic physical task: use your upper body to push through this fabric. (In the second video, they [...]

I’m investigating narrative perception as it relates to the appearance of one’s face. What does one perceive when they view a face? How do these views vary from person to person? What’s lost in this transmission from the “real” to the perceived? What misconceptions and biases do we as humans carry and immediately apply, often [...]

I took the movement scores I derived in my last series of experiments into the studio, first going through each of the three movement scores individually as improvisations, then breaking them up and taking one or two lines at a time. I also brought in this large piece of Lycra, to use as kind of [...]

I’ve been keeping an ongoing list of artists and readings people mention to me in reference to my project:
Readings:
Jonathan Crary’s writings on perception
Yvonne Rainer’s “No Manifesto”
Ralph Lemon “Geography” (added by me because it has influenced me greatly)
Roselee Goldberg “Performance Art”
KA Cerulo’s “Identity Construction: New Issues, New Directions”
Timothy Powell’s “Beyond the Binary: Reconstructing Cultural Identities”
“Interrogating Identity”
Elizabeth [...]

How do you create a feedback loop that begins and ends with the body?
I’m interested in exploring this process, mediating a translation of a simple element/concept with various media, such as video, photography and text. Can I start with a simple piece of movement and reinterpret it through video? Through sound? Through text? Can [...]