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
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
