#body performance

CONFRONTATION

Climate protest participants stand on blocks of ice in Cologne, Germany.

Valie Export, «Body Configurations», 1972 - 1976

“Body configurations” - a series of works that fit a body into space or showing that everything is measured by the body, correlated with the body. Female bodies inscribed in urban space: steps, corners of buildings, parapets, sidewalks - evidence of either the dissolution of the body, or the grotesque image of a woman as an attribute, the woman as an exterior element, a decoration that has no more functions. This is the typical male gaze at the woman that the artist wittily showed.

I was wrapped around in my drawing of silhouette, I sat in a chair with my hand held high. I explored how colour might affect the results.

This first one on the right the colours are bright and inviting but I am locked in possibly looking for help. I wanted to imitate the drawing by lifting my hand upwards, however on reflection my hands are too upright and it doesn’t feel equivalent to the drawing, I now feel it’s incongruent to the original drawing. What can I take away for this? The body shows moment in different ways, although in my mind I thought it was the same . I looking at it later objectively I understood the difference. The original silhouette was my body lying on a table relaxed with no effort from my body as opposed my hands standing straight up in the air is a more forced version and looked different in performance.

Researching I came across Body Webb using a person in his sculptures and looked at how it interacts with the sculpture

Above Body Webb uses a body in his sculpture, to me it looks like the foot of an elephant standing on a persons head like he’s going to be killed execution style. The person is holding a gun in his hand, possibly to kill the elephant.

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