I've been thinking about how to document/present my performance ideas. Photo's are the obvious step. A mixture of photo, film and projection (is it possible to lay my films over eachother? To split the screen and have all four at the same time? how can i work with sound?)
When thinking of the photos I have, it seems that the most accessible form of identity construction - showing what we think of ourselves, or what we want to present ourselves as - especially in the context of a budding performance artist, is a facebook profile. Wit, politics and narcissim.
it would be even better to be able to 'look back'. I'm reading 'the explicit body in performance' and it's striking me that 'desire' is also my desire to be seen/be seen in a particular light. What Rebecca is talking about is perspectiveal viewer/ the invisible viewer and the culture of 'lack'. The viewer can never have the subject of the photo. I, the subject of the photo can never view myself I can represent/signify in pictures that which i never was at that moment.
ReplyDeleteBy projecting my photos onto myself I can attempt to become that which I am signifying in pictures an yet, being un able to see it - except in a mirror - I am unable to experience fulfillment of desire which we are culturally conditioned to experience or want to experience through visual means.
'apotheosis of desirability, all that a man could want, yet nothing that can be had, nor anything that a woman can be' Richard Dyer (1988:64)
ReplyDeletei'd never thought of 'my body is a temple' as being a feminist statement
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