Encasing
I'm being encased in cling film and gaffer tape at Chisenhale Dance Space on Saturday.
It is part of a day exploring where live art practice and dance meet and cross over.
http://www.chisenhaledancespace.co.uk/events.htm
Come along if you like! We will be performing the work from 3.30-ish. It is a work by Doran George, and is one of his series of encasing works. He is living in LA currently, and when I bumped into him in London over the summer, he asked if I"d be interested in performing.
There are three of us working together, and we did a rehersal yesterday, which is where the images are from. What an amazing experience. I am wrapped firstly in cling film. Then the gaffer tape. It will be completely in white tape on Saturday.
Transformative and intense.
It is part of a day exploring where live art practice and dance meet and cross over.
http://www.chisenhaledancespace.co.uk/events.htm
Come along if you like! We will be performing the work from 3.30-ish. It is a work by Doran George, and is one of his series of encasing works. He is living in LA currently, and when I bumped into him in London over the summer, he asked if I"d be interested in performing.
There are three of us working together, and we did a rehersal yesterday, which is where the images are from. What an amazing experience. I am wrapped firstly in cling film. Then the gaffer tape. It will be completely in white tape on Saturday.
Transformative and intense.
posted by de-mentored at 11:35 pm
7 Comments:
Wow, wow, wow. Is the wrapping part of the performance? How will it end, are you cut out or wheeled off? That is a serious question, even though it reads like a joke.
Hi Steven
Am being cling-filmed, then gaffered. I have a knife under my hand, which is on my thigh. I then work my way out with the knife; quite a powerful image for audience.
Will be very interesting. Quite an amazing experience, puts me in a very specific headspace.
Hi, wow, looks fantastic and what an experience. Will do my best to be there. The chisenhale space is great, I have friends with spaces there.
How long does the process take? will you reecord the marks left on the body after,
Ninax
Hi Lucille,
This looks amazing, I was sorry I wasn't able to see it live on the weekend, but I hope it went well. sounds like you have been very busy and on a mission recently, would be lovely to see you and catch up at some point soon. I love the idea of the hidden knife working it's way through. Threatening and resourceful, a loophole in the plot.
Mad x
Dear Lucille
Thank you for letting me, (us), know about your performance on Saturday. i am sorry I was not able to make it- a big family weekend here to see of my little sister- as she flew off to Singapore yesterday for a year of travelling/siteseeing/ doing lovely things.
How did it go?
I saw your images, and I have just read your comment in response to Steven's- about having a knife...I hadn't seen that in the image at all, so how I read the image was so different to now...
...almost like I read it as this guy doing it to you- he was cling filming you, and therefore he would control when it was taken off...but the knife...makes it seem more powerful on your part..
..separately it also kind of reminds me of the video you showed at teh first meeting where you had both your legs in one leg of a pair of tights....maybe only, or maybe just immediately I think so, because you constrict you're own body, the headspace that that allows you, but the fact that you are in control of it still- completely so...
Katherine
I do really like you wrapped in cling film more...because you, your body is tsill visible, and the imapct of it against you is more visually exciting. But then the fact that it is live, I'm sure I would feel differently about it, towards you as the person being constricted...but yes, the cling film seems much more visual.
At teh end of your original post you used the word transformative.... in a physical sense for you do you mean?
Katherine.
Hi guys,
Many thanks for all your comments.
Yes, the performance was transformative amongst other things. It was very, very different doing it with an audience who were free to come and go from the space. I experienced a lot more anxiety through my breathing. Because it is an ascending wrapping, as the tape reached my torso, I was aware of an hugely increased degree of confinement. Then a psyching up for my head being covered. This time we covered my face completely except for two holes where my nostrils were. This felt more complete, made more sense.
Curiously, we were slightly hassled by one of the organisers just as my head was about to be taped. Because of the cling film, I could sense her stressy energy, but didn't know what was happening, and found myself shouting out 'what's going on?'. Very strange.
I feel quite calm when completely encased. On saturday I was aware that there was a bit of a schedule, and that the audience, having been asked to leave the space whilst my head was taped up, came back in to see my cut myself out of my bindings whilst a film was projected onto me. Because I didn't know the film, I didn't really know how to pitch it pace-wise. It was really good, though. Timing worked. Me hacking my way gently out of tape with knife worked. As I emerged, naked, I got up and stumbled out of the space, disoriented, unsteady.
Afterwards, I had to leave. A couple of audience members asked me how I was feeling, and I realised that I needed to be in an environment where I didn't need to speak. I went home and cooked toad in the hole, and chocolate cake, and felt calm and grounded... still a little strange... but good strange.
Since then, I have been cleaning my flat, organising, sorting, deep washing bedding... All feels connected.
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