Oculus Iceland Performance 1, 2001 |
Oculus Iceland Performance 2, 2001 |
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An extended performance for camera on location in a lava field on the Reykjanes Penninsula south of Rekyavik, Iceland. During this performance the artist marked her GPS coordinates in time and space, took a seated position in the landscape and repeatedly rolled and unrolled a length of Icelandic yarn. By repeating the same physical gesture unfurling and furling the yarn over a period of 24 hours in the the performance harkens ideas of seemingly endless repetition in women's domestic labor and the myths of Echo and Persephone. The work is an homage to Maya Deren's experimental film, Ritual in Transfigured Time, 1946 wherein the main character is seen holding a length of yarn between her hands. Available for purchase & exhibition click for tech requirements. |
The second extended performance for camera on location in a lava field on the Reykjanes Penninsula south of Rekyavik, Iceland. Like the first performance the artist marked her GPS coorinates in time and space then iin this work she performed a meditation - walking in a large arching circle, turned and walked in the opposite direction. Once she reached her original starting point she repeated her path creating a pattern of flow and return and marking a 360º pendulum in the landscape. This work was influenced by walking meditations common in some Buddhist meditation practices, coaching the mediator to use physcial movement in a very intentional manner focusing on each movement of the body in time as it moves through space. Available for purchase & exhibition click for tech requirements. |