re:place

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Installation (2013)

A site-specific installation concerned with the memory of space and artistic context

re:place (part I) – photography installation

Instead of using photography to capture and frame a perspective of the space and then extract it to display in a foreign surroundings re:place keeps the views within the context of the original source. Highlighting and drawing attention to the selected view of the camera by suspending the images from where they were taken. Keeping it there captures that moment in time and displays how the scene has changed.

re:place (part II) – video installation

The video installation is compiled of frames captured from the venue throughout the day and them projected back onto the same surface creating a living memory of the space.

PAST SHOWINGS

Month of Performance Art,  
14th May 2013
Nue Hoc, Berlin

I'm Cutting You Off

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Video Installation (2013)

From a distance, without the sound, the screen seems to display a commonplace occurrence of brushing, tying and cutting hair. However, upon closer inspection discovering the the other side, by putting on the headphones, with the audio revealing the pain and suffering endured by the hair itself during these tasks.

Hair provided by Hannah Whittaker
Cutting and Voice by Yoko Ishiguro
Afterwards trimming by Siobhan Halpin
Editing by Hannah Whittaker

PAST SHOWINGS

POP exhibition
5th April 2014
POP Gallery, Chatham

Missing Element Exhibition
Agora Arts,
Wandsworth Fringe Festival
18th - 19th May 2018
ArtLacuna

Run to Run

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Interactive Installation (2013)

It is survival of the fittest, in the most literal of senses.

Originally part of the ‘Nothing But Smoke…’ collection of installations, this piece has broken away not only to be a stand alone interactive spectacle but has also inspired a mini series of site-specific explorations, playing with the mechanics of the flipbook and the need for audience participation to make them work/ make the ‘performer’ move. 

This piece was addictive. Each time I tried that little bit harder, and each time I seemed to fail right at the last hurdle. If ever a piece encapsulated the term ‘tempting failure’, it was this.


Editions:

Run to Run: Survival of the fittest (2012)
Run to make the animation progress through life, stop running and he dies - this interactive installation invites the audience to challenge themselves and playfully consider the futility of life. 

Run to Run: Lordship Lane (2016)
Race against the clock to collect the shopping from Lordship Lane - making fun of the 'to do list'. 

Run to Run: Shoreditch Sprint (2017)
Race against the clock to reach the Hoxton Job Centre before it shuts, while completing urgent tasks along the way. 

Run to Run: Guildhall Hurtle (2017)
Make your way around the exhibits in Guildhall Museum and get out before it closes at 5pm. 

PAST SHOWINGS

51zero Festival
Sat 28th - Sun 29th Oct 2017
Guildhall Museum

DIY Cultures Festival,
Interactive Art Commission
Sun 14 May 2017
RichMix

Fantasy High Street - Animating Lordship Lane
Sun 4 Sept 2016
Lordship Lane

Tempting Failure festival  
6-7th Apr 2013
The Island, Bristol,

GATE F – International Performance Experience
17th Jan 2013
 Stoke Newington Airport

Worth of Service

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One On One Performance (2013)

Worth of Service is an intimate one on one performance treating people to a cleansing encounter. Together the performer and participant discuss times when they’ve done a kind act for someone else, what provoked such an act and how it was received, considering the motivation behind labours that receive no monetary compensation - all taking place while the performer is giving the participant a foot wash. The encounter culminates with the participant’s wet feet being dried with the performer’s hair and the participant being asked to write down a service that they might provide in return for the performance - it can be anything that they think is of equal value, but cannot be money. The suggestion is hypothetical, they are not required to provide the suggested service, but all suggestions are collected on a board which is on display.  

 The act of foot washing is an ancient practice of welcoming honoured guests into the home, with instances of this featuring in the Bible, Homer’s Odyssey and many more. This performance is open to all, welcoming in anyone from the public into that position of honoured guest, in full display of the rest of the surrounding public. 

The piece puts into question what motivates us into acts of service, and makes us think about how we value other people, as well as ourselves, and what they have to offer outside of an economic scale.

Here are some of the audience's answers, when asked hypothetically what they would give in exchange for the performance:

Layers

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Digital Performance (2012)

This digital performance is concerned with the idea of layering, not only of multimedia with sound and video looping but also the layers applied daily to my face. Examining the metamorphosis that the face undergoes, the rigorous procedures performed to prepare the visage for the outside world, creating a state of flux and suggesting a fluidity of persona.

The video initially displays a video loop of the performers ‘naked face’. The performer goes through the routine of putting on a full face of makeup, with each layer of makeup applied live frames of that application are mixed into the video projection loop. Slowly the video loop becomes littered with flashes of these applications and eventually displays the finished ‘product’ - the socially projected image of the performer. 

In a similar way to the video mixing, a musician provides a sound scape created from the use of looping and pedals. Each layer of makeup is accompanied by another layer of sound added to the audio loop, so that by the end the  ‘busyness’ of the face is paralleled by the cacophony of the soundscape.

Trace video of the projected video output:

PAST SHOWINGS

51zero Festival
Oct 2012
Rochester Visitor Centre

51zero Voyager - Whitstable Biennale 
Sat 2nd June 2018 
Film Screening on the beach

Your Face, Your Self

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One On One Performance (2012)

A one on one performance in which the audience are invited to take a journey with themselves. 

An interactive audio/visual installation for one person at a time, inviting the viewer to examine their relationship with their own reflection. They are encouraged to stare at their image while listening to an internal monologue that draws on psychology and literary texts, such as Ovid’s Metamorphosis, Oscar Wilde’s A Picture of Dorian Gray and Sartre's Nausea, all of which describe and voice the internal observations on one's outwards appearance. The audio guides them to examine family traits, scars, personal customisation such as piercings. Thinking back to our infant stage when we began to recognise our reflection as ourselves, going through puberty when we may have become more obsessed by our image and self expression, onwards to the history shown in the geographical landscape of our face forged by our lives and overall questioning whether you feel it is a true representation of your inner self.

experience the performance online

PAST SHOWINGS

51zero Festival
Oct 2014
Sun Pier, Chatham

Scratch Festival 
Oct 2012
Battersea Arts Centre 

Electric Medway Festival
Aug 2020