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Anna Reading (2020) ‘Forwards Backwards Awkwards’

Wood, card, foam, gravel, PVA, gloss paint 117 x 83 x 50cm Video documentation of performance: 01:30

Forwards Backwards Awkwards is a performance in which I enter a cage-like sculpture made from wood, card, foam, gravel and gloss paint. Wearing full yellow waterproofs I crawl inside the piece and slowly and methodically travel across the gallery space. The performance acts as a both laborious and comical journey, exploring notions of shelter and vulnerability. At the end of the performance, the sculptural relic is left in the gallery discarded as a shell would be.