Our artist in residence Samantha Dick ran a 4 week performance art course,firstly introducing us to artists then giving us warm up excersises to do which included ‘body scanning’ (a meditive warm up excersise in order to help you relax and open up).’sculpting’ which was a fun warm up excercise where we were placed into partners and had to sculpt that persons body.Amongst other warm up activities

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At one point we were told to write down something which is virtually impossible to do then to act this out in a flowing repetitive motion.I felt that this really helped when it came to performing later on.As it was a simple yet interesting technique to use.

We were then asked to bring in object that meant something to us or a piece of text and to take some words that we felt from these things then to perform a piece.I found this hard as I had had to go away to an appointment and wasn’t able to attend the workshop based around the object.I was told that my peformance had crossed the line of performance art into acting in the small performance that i had done and do think that i could of benifitted from the piece of the class that i had missed.

I still however managed to take the skills that i had learned and translate them into a small performance video which became part of my 3D work.

Tonight at our ‘body as material’ exhibition we curated our own work with the help of Samantha offering us guidance.

We initally experienced some technical difficulties with the hard drives and SD cards,some of which weren’t playing and one projector seemed to be projecting green.I drove back to the college with Samantha and another student so that we could get technical support from one of the college staff and drive her back to the college.Luckily we were able to replace the projector that was projecting green and the technical assistant was able to get the SD cards and hard drives to work.

https://drive.google.com/open?id=1J1eQoI2vHDb20ckWlKartu1HSrIyYgO3

https://drive.google.com/open?id=1Hu9hOLw901ap79nPenc63K2UaB35P3D9

I also decided to debute my first performance along side this.My classmate was also performing at the same time so I found this comforting in a way all tho i was nervous.It seems since I have added the additional attachments to the headpiece that it had become dark and more claustrophobic.(I really should of tested this prior to the performance)Along with the added heat from the projectors I did feel quite faint but continued to perform anyway.I had considered a multitude of various ideas over the past few weeks so decided to blend a couple of them together and hope for the best.All in all I think it was a sucessful performance as I think it portrayed my ideas clearly to the room.And the feedback seemed positive.

https://drive.google.com/open?id=1J2asVIqblclWb9DZGOMGfTn6TYGsppPi

I think i would like to take performance art into my future work and use the skills I have learnt in the future.