MAPPING SITE SPECIFIC COLLABORATION PERFORMANCE EXHIBITING MATERIALS LONELINESS INTIMACY ATTACHMENT LATEX EXPERIMENTATION
APRIL 2015 - DECEMBER 2015
Buying six metres of baby pink latex moved my work along to further explore relationships with objects, the body, both human and plastic and the need for affection and comfort provided in a mechanical way by the Hug Machine.The working drawing made by myself and technical support was exhibited at WE ALL DRAW at the Bargehouse, OXO Tower on the South Bank in November 2015, curated by Tania Kovats and Kelly Chorpening.
My research was developing further into psycho analysis and attatchment to objects. I was looking at artists like John Rafman, Nathaniel Mellors and the performance/installations of Lea Collet. I was finding that juxtaposing an object which was interactive, amusing and slightly uncanny like the Hug Machine with a video like Latexorgasm made the experience more bizarre and intimate. Humour enabling the potentially embarassing and the bizarre to co-exist, so that the object could be activated.
I had been looking at films and performance by artists such as Gaspar Noe, Sam Taylor Wood and Marina Abramovic. Exploring where my own particular blend of sexuality and play co- existed.
THE HUG MACHINE
Welded metal armature, latex, stuffing, wood and metal support.
LATEX ORGASM
Looped film. To be watched while using The Hug Machine, sound on headphones. I wanted a mixture of using this absurd and slightly constraining performative object while watching and privately listening to the sounds of the latex slapping. Juxtaposing the sexual and the absurd with the need for affection and touch
Mixing multiples in installation exploring 'lowly' materials, live streaming and performance, film and performing and interactive objects and installations. Pinkness, femaleness, sexuality.
Jon Rafman, Gaspar Noe, Lea Collet, Nathaniel Mellors, Religious artefacts, Nina Cavell, Karla Black, Keith Harrison.
