wading in the waters
Wading in the Waters was a series of personal tests of vulnerability which aimed for the emergence of organic processes related to self-reflection and exploratory contemplation, blurring the boundaries between internal and external spaces.
Examining her relationship to herself and her cultural heritage, these 3 nights, 3 hour long sessions of improvised performance were viewable to the public through the shop window front of a local coffee shop after hours as people walked by.
The project acted as research, interrogating the boundary of private and public through exposing intimate everyday rituals, whilst also recontextualising previous artworks into new public contexts.
This work explored the idea of non-performativity: an attempt to operate within a performative space whilst resisting the necessity to act in a staged or representational manner. It was an act of personal enjoyment, a celebration of the cultural heritage that lives in the body, and a shedding of the behavioural expectations one feels within an artistic space.
