Dear Supers,
I had a most amazing visit to the archive of the National Museum here in Dublin to see their reserve collection of Sheela Na Gigs,
I am in negociations to have a durational performance at the Hugh Lane Gallery mid 2011, and possibly as part of Dublin Contemporary.
I have been considering a longditudinal durational performance, at this stage Im talk to them about 2 or 3 weeks but have to see how it might fit into Dublin Contemporary's schedule.
At this stage Im interested in confronting images of the female body as seen with the sheela na gig's alongside the female body, (I have also been developing a response piece to Schneemann's interior scroll and both ideas are overlapping at the moment)
At this stage the proposal is for me to carry them on my back and walk/crawl around this oval shaped room in the Hugh Lane.. but Im putting provisos on this as i still have a lot of negociation to do and development time.
Also Im considering having NO documentation for the piece in the exhibition space in the times when im not live. The piece would have to be relayed to the audience through the invigilators, and each invigilator may choose their own way to 'document' it; by verbally retelling it, or showing video or photography from their mobile phone. This I think could be a place to case study audience reaction to live performance -?
Im hoping to borrow the collection to show alongside my live performance and make casts of the antiquities and this is a delicate process, i will keep you updated as it develops, but I am super excited by it at this stage and hoovering up all thats been written about Sheela na Gigs...hmmm attempting to read Barthe too!
I had a most amazing visit to the archive of the National Museum here in Dublin to see their reserve collection of Sheela Na Gigs,
I am in negociations to have a durational performance at the Hugh Lane Gallery mid 2011, and possibly as part of Dublin Contemporary.
I have been considering a longditudinal durational performance, at this stage Im talk to them about 2 or 3 weeks but have to see how it might fit into Dublin Contemporary's schedule.
At this stage Im interested in confronting images of the female body as seen with the sheela na gig's alongside the female body, (I have also been developing a response piece to Schneemann's interior scroll and both ideas are overlapping at the moment)
At this stage the proposal is for me to carry them on my back and walk/crawl around this oval shaped room in the Hugh Lane.. but Im putting provisos on this as i still have a lot of negociation to do and development time.
Also Im considering having NO documentation for the piece in the exhibition space in the times when im not live. The piece would have to be relayed to the audience through the invigilators, and each invigilator may choose their own way to 'document' it; by verbally retelling it, or showing video or photography from their mobile phone. This I think could be a place to case study audience reaction to live performance -?
Im hoping to borrow the collection to show alongside my live performance and make casts of the antiquities and this is a delicate process, i will keep you updated as it develops, but I am super excited by it at this stage and hoovering up all thats been written about Sheela na Gigs...hmmm attempting to read Barthe too!
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