Responding to Kinetic and Movement Art - Part Two

Inspired by Heather Hansen, Trisha Brown, and Max Sheets Johnstone's The Primacy of Movement, I brought six B1 sheets, taped them together and set up in the grand hall in Wymering Manor. I decided to capture a birds eye view of my performance art, as this was the best angle to have myself and all of the paper in the shot, and set up my phone on the upstairs landing. In my S.A.H.R. project, I drew a lot of inspiration from the grand hall, discussing how the room produces a sense of familiarity and nostalgia, as well as this, in my proposal to adapt the manor into a museum, the grand hall is one of the main exhibition rooms. Choosing the grand hall for my performance piece brought back the sense of familiarly and nostalgia of the manor, as well as bringing a small part of my proposal to life.  

My aim of this performance piece was to captivate the impact and atmosphere of the grand hall. Evidently, and as discussed before, my initial impressions of the manor was that it was quite dark and cold, but once putting some work and care into the manor, it turns into a beautiful and elaborate space. I believe that the phrase 'beauty is in the eye of the beholder' (1) fits both the manor and my performance art well. Looking back at the video I noticed that at one point, my performance art looks like a skeleton, and I almost seem to build on top of it, giving it muscles and fat, similarly to how I have worked into Wymering Manor and have built and developed my projects.  

During the performance piece, I found myself either facing the manor's original front doors, or facing into the grand hall, I find this interesting as the space I am working in would of had a lot of foot traffic to and from the doors to the grand hall. Along side the impact and atmosphere, I believe that I have captivated the former movements of the grand hall. Similar to Heather Hansen's performance pieces, mine is very geometrical, I think this due to the directions I was facing the most often.

I also noticed that on some sections I had accidentally made an imprint of the rug underneath the paper, I like to think that this is a subtle way of the manor leaving its mark, the same way I left mine. 

I chose to have six separate sheets of paper rather than one large one as it allows me to take them apart to pick apart different markings and patterns I have produced. 

(All images and videos are taken by me. Videos uploaded on YouTube due to file size)