SHEENA McGRANDLES
  • PROJECTS
    • DAWN : A Musical On Reproduction
    • DON'T MOTHER ME!
    • FLUSH (2020)
    • TONIGHT (2019)
    • MELANCHOLÍA (2019)
    • FREEDOM LANDSCAPES (2018)
    • FIGURED (2018)
    • JADED (2017)
    • BOUNTY (2016)
    • INTERVENTION : WHO'S THE PARTY NOW, SISTER? (2016)
    • Dialogue : Renate Bertlemann (2015)
    • Man Power Mix (2015)
    • EXHIBITION : WHO'S THE PARTY NOW, SISTER? (2015)
    • New Materialism (2015)
    • Man must eat (2015)
    • STEVE & SAM (2014)
    • True Balls (2013)
    • Eee Series (2011-2012)
    • Meatbook (2012)
    • walking & words (2010)
    • GROWING A MAN (2009)
  • NEWS
  • TEACHING
    • SENSATION WORKSHOP
    • WHO'S THE PARTY NOW?
  • CURATION
    • LAVA
    • MOVE
    • OBJECTS, ANIMALS & PERVERSIONS
    • RUG
  • PUBLICATIONS
    • DIS Magazine
    • ON SLOWNESS
    • INSTITUTIONALISED BODY
    • AS IF ITS JUST ABOUT TO HAPPEN
    • Feedback Lab 2
    • Feedback Lab 1
    • Writing : RIC ALLSOPP
  • ABOUT
  • PRESS
  • CONTACT
  • CV

WALKING & WORDS

Concept and performance: Sheena McGrandles
                    
This piece is a direct response to the language-based work that I have been developing in relation to a module on language and research during the 1st semester in SODA. I was interested in working with the questions, how does language performer? What language do we use to talk about certain bodies? And how can I show its possibilities?
                    
By placing my ‘dressed’ body at the centre of the work and positioning the audience in the role of the ‘reader’ I wanted to produce a multiple body that is shifting through the sign of word. I experiment with how my body can be ‘seen’ and understood in relation to word. It is a constant movement between my body’s ‘appearance’ (what it signals) and how my ‘bodies’ ‘appear’ (come into view). My interest here is how can I make the viewer re-think the body by continually redefining my own body? What body can we understand as man/male/woman/female? By employing the performative act as an ‘act of speech’, I can begin to set in motion a body that signifies as an ‘other’.
                    
Mentored by, Ric Allsopp and Lito Walkey










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  • PROJECTS
    • DAWN : A Musical On Reproduction
    • DON'T MOTHER ME!
    • FLUSH (2020)
    • TONIGHT (2019)
    • MELANCHOLÍA (2019)
    • FREEDOM LANDSCAPES (2018)
    • FIGURED (2018)
    • JADED (2017)
    • BOUNTY (2016)
    • INTERVENTION : WHO'S THE PARTY NOW, SISTER? (2016)
    • Dialogue : Renate Bertlemann (2015)
    • Man Power Mix (2015)
    • EXHIBITION : WHO'S THE PARTY NOW, SISTER? (2015)
    • New Materialism (2015)
    • Man must eat (2015)
    • STEVE & SAM (2014)
    • True Balls (2013)
    • Eee Series (2011-2012)
    • Meatbook (2012)
    • walking & words (2010)
    • GROWING A MAN (2009)
  • NEWS
  • TEACHING
    • SENSATION WORKSHOP
    • WHO'S THE PARTY NOW?
  • CURATION
    • LAVA
    • MOVE
    • OBJECTS, ANIMALS & PERVERSIONS
    • RUG
  • PUBLICATIONS
    • DIS Magazine
    • ON SLOWNESS
    • INSTITUTIONALISED BODY
    • AS IF ITS JUST ABOUT TO HAPPEN
    • Feedback Lab 2
    • Feedback Lab 1
    • Writing : RIC ALLSOPP
  • ABOUT
  • PRESS
  • CONTACT
  • CV