Performance/installation
Place: The Vallum Gallery, Institute of the Arts, Brampton Road, Carlisle, England (Young Cumbrian Artist of the Year Exhibition)
Duration: 3 hours continuous
Material: Human form, A3 paper w/ description of original performance, grayscale photograph, blue tarpaulin, steel toe capped boots, latex gloves, shovel, hazard tape, heavy duty trousers, jumper, wool hat, wrench
21st March 2019
Presenting my physical form amongst the symbolic assemblage of that part of me that lives on vague nostalgia, my return as the works protagonist flirted with a semblance of aesthetic authenticity. However, I could be seen playing up my trauma, embodying a picturesque image of physical distress – a state merely implied by the description of the nostalgia performance. Loaning this suggestive physicality, I presented my staged production of emotional turmoil, becoming a poseur.
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