Artist research

I'm really interested by Donna Huanca's work. I think she was good to research because we have spoken about theatrical performance & even sculpture work for our piece.

I particularly like that her work focuses on skin & the human body, It feels very personal. 

Tomorrow we are going to see Donna Huanca's work, we are seeing the Zabludowicz Collection! 

Timeout.com wrote this about the exhibition;

'They move around this old chapel in ultra slow-mo, smooshing their bodies into panes of glass, leaving smears of paint behind. At one end of the room there’s a three-storey glass structure, which the models clamber through and lie in. At the other end, there’s a wooden platform covered with speakers, throbbing with an endless drone. In the centre there’s a big white sandpit covered in footsteps. Thick incense fills the air, sound shakes the windows. 

You can watch from the safety of the mezzanine above, but you’d be missing the point. Stay downstairs, be confronted by the nudity, the achingly slow movements, the stillness in the air, the scent, the noise. It’s heart-racingly weird to stand there as the performers walk past you, lost in their dazes. It’s so removed from a normal everyday experience that it’s almost transcendental for you too.' (http://www.timeout.com/london/art/donna-huanca#tab_panel_3)

I'm really excited to see this piece, i've never seen 'live' art before.

http://www.arttherapyblog.com/featured/artist-harli-tree-from-england-with-multiple-personalities-dissociative-identity-disorder/#.WDXZnHeca3U

LATC Harli Tree Exhibition from Arttherapy Centre on Vimeo.

Sunny found an artist called Harli Tree who actually has D.I.D. Her work is featured at the London Art Therapy Centre (perhaps somewhere we could visit).

I find this image extremely interesting, it's quite similar to how we are imagining our piece at this point. The use of the same face, but slightly different and getting more blurred as it fades out. I also really like that the 'main' or middle mask/face is a different and lighter colour to the rest- maybe we could play around with colour when filming, or in post to re-create this. I'm really drawn to the purple, its an extremely calming colour.