White cuts Liverpool

print room @ Fresh from the oven

Performance installation made in response to the enclosed, windowed screenprint studio at Coachwerks during our event Fresh from the oven.

Two small cameras were attached to the glass on the outside of the enclosed space. The window was completely covered with blank photo papers (with a sticky back) from the inside and the performer, wearing a paper dress, was inside on the print table with a printer.

The idea was for the audience to use the cameras to 'view' and capture the performer from the outside of the window, the photos taken would immediately be sent to print on the printer next to the performer. She would gradually remove the blank papers from the window, put them through the printer - printing the audience's 'view' of her - and then cover her body in these prints.

But ... the printer broke after the second print... aaaaaah! Instead I just carried on putting the white stickers on me while people took photos through the glass. Not quite what I expected but people seem to have enjoyed in anyway.... Here are some of the photos.

Session no 5

flashing

video still.

light effects captured by the video camera somehow...

dot movement studies

more images on flickr

NEW YEAR FORTUNE

I went to an amazing, happy party at Pop-up Studios, Lewes, organised by friends p&i (who are cycling to Japan in 2010-12, this night was their fun & fund-raiser). They spent weeks doing up an unused and junk-filled part of the studios, making it into a perfect party-space; two dance floors, a bar, two chill-out spaces and even a wardrobe!

I arrived just before midnight to do a 'anti-countdown-performance'. The night then continued into the next day, full of wonderful friends and people enjoying what may be the best new year party I've been to since my clubbing days in Tokyo (and that's more than a decennia ago!)...

After a snooze at the studios on New Year's Day, we went for an epic walk in the downs, climbing iced-moss-covered hills with clear sky and stunning views. Having no walking-shoes with me, I looked stylish on the hilltop in heels as pictured above :)

For the midnight performance I used the idea of o-mikuji, literally meaning 'sacred lottery'; fortunes printed on strips of paper, popular in Japanese shrines and temples.

By email I asked people I know to give me 10 words to use for the paper strips. The words were collected in the last 24 hours of 2009, printed, cut strips, and attached with yarn to a gorgeous white dress. 168 words in total!

Entering the main space of the party minutes before midnight, I wore a black detachable dress over the white one (have no photos..). At 12, in the middle of the space, i ripped the black dress off revealing all the paper fortunes hanging from the white dress. The next hour or so I moved around in the crowd, offering people to pick their fortune off the dress. Here are some of them:

Here are all the words people sent me.

I asked for words that make you happy or you wish for

18 participants (living in 7 different cities/towns, and 3 different countries)

Korg microphone holidays sun water dreams spring swim south music

warmth love intimacy pink lime green clean clear sparkle taste plant

mas fuerza, mas energía, mas amor, mas hacer el amor

yes friends too play remember soft love path today unfenced

お父さん、お母さん、すし、うなぎ、そば に うどん ありがとう

Mesmerification Dodecahedonism Talismanagement Sausages Second rate Woody Grill Kinichiwa Singapore noodles Ember viridian

belong in the wind

belong in the snow

belong to the trees

the rain and your love

belong to the water

belong to the sun

belong to everyone

and no one at all

mountains flow dance faith clarity kisses love openess stars hope

ים שמש אהבה שלווה בריאות חברות יצירה הגשמה שלום חלום

chocolate charcoal skin eye lashes lips rain primavera planetas air landing

Blessing upon harmony of action and inaction reaching lasting beauty

transformation mysticism friends myth adventure growth enlightenment schpongle-juice doitch 'oh' wheels cranks fast cars & bitches loveguns pistonpower pistonlegs

tweek rising sun together regenerate east

amal, baraka, rahma, farah, iman, salam, wahab, ihsan, rachid, noor

Vårmorgonsgryning i skånsk skogsdunge. Dofter. Ljus.

Uppvaknande fåglars intensiva sång. Svensk naturromantik.

Hälsa, Pengar, Strand, Hav, Himmel, Sol, Växter, Min docksamling, Opera, Skönhet i alla former, Vackra ting, Lieder, Måla, Skapa

let your blossom blossom and everything else will follow too.

your passion will transcend into a flowering process within and outside of you

peanut-butter morning better later keys Earl Grey act car snow soup

Dear Adam

My friend Adam died one year and a few days ago.

The past days he has been with me a lot.

Here is documentation of a private performance I did around the day of his funeral last year, which I couldn't attend as I was abroad.

Title: Adam, and having a body

29 Sep 2008, Corfu, Greece.

Preparing. A blue sheet of paper is painted white, and a cut-out of my own body is placed on top. White paint and clay is mixed in a mortar and used to outline the edges of the body, at the same time 'gluing' the edges down.

A light breeze animates the blue figure at times.

The figure is filled in with charcoal (carbon).

I undress, rub my body with oil and lay on top of the figure.

The charcoal leaves a print on my back when I get up.

I raise the figure and embrace it. The charcoal leaves a print on the front of my body.

I set fire to the figure and watch it disintegrate.

I leave the space.

thank you Adam