MAPPING SITE SPECIFIC COLLABORATION PERFORMANCE EXHIBITING MATERIALS LONELINESS INTIMACY ATTACHMENT LATEX EXPERIMENTATION
APRIL 2015 - DECEMBER 2015
I enjoy the pace and challenge of providing a piece of work for a site specific project. From the initial research for proposal writing, through more intensive research, planning and developing the work to recording and documenting are exciting and provide a begnning and end which provides a particular satisfaction. Working collaboratively not only shares the load but increases the opportunity to discuss and develop the work further. The gatekeeper was my first public performance and was well received and Paradise went through a number of incarnations before we were both happy with its final installation, a process of shared creative thinking and critical analysis I found extremly valuable.
THE GATEKEEPER
Performance for PARK 15, May 2015 Curated by Juliet Haysom
Recruiting 6 women in their 60s with grey hair and glasses to assist me in a perforrmance about the Disappearing Woman. Why was there someone opening the gate to Cannizarro Park? Was that the same person sitting on a chair 2 yards further on into the park? Do older women all become the same person?
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PARADISE
Paradise was a site specific installation made for the interim show, INDEX at the Crypt in St Pancras Church, Euston Road.
Old maps in Camden library showed when the church was built in the 1800s, a short walk away was the Adam and Eve public house, which had gardens and orchards built 200 years before when the Euston Road was a cart track, when it was an Edgeland. The pub is no longer there and Eden Street which took its name was demolished to make way for an underpass. The music to the film is Delius, A Walk to the Paradise Garden. The Insatallation consisted of a 1m wide neon sign made for us by a sign company, the film and a copy of the map of the walk in a waterproof walkers transparent map pocket.
