my dissertation i wrote about risk, this features within my practical work due to the materials i use and features within my concept. due to the fact when artists cause risk to themselves and deform themselves in the name of art this then lets people see them in a different way and lets them feel and see how people that have had deformitys since birth feel on a day to day bases.
during this i looked at how risk can affect the audience in different ways unexpected risk, and expected risk. some of the artists i looked at that caused risk within their work were chris buren and Maria Abramovitch who both use methords of self mutalation within their work Buren gets friends to shoot him, nail him to the bonnet of cars, and crawls over glass, all causing scars and trauma to the body both mentally and physicly.
“On the ridge where the great artist moves forward, every step is an adventure, an extreme risk. In that risk, however, and only there, lays the freedom of art.” (Camus, A. (2013).)
one of the quotes i used within my dissertation, i really love this quote because it says to me that you cant compromise your work and what you believe in because it might involve risk, either politicly, physicly or involving law and career.
you should be true to your work, and your self.
“There’s no such kind of a logical ending in dealing with pain. I create a structure in which I can go far into the physical limits that a body can take. I don’t want to die. That is not the purpose. I want to experience the edge and how much I can take to this edge.” (Abramovic,M. (2008).)
I like this quote and think its relevant to my work, thinking about people who struggle with deformitys and the pain they feel physically and emotionally each day.
