The work contests the division between representation and the live active body. Starkey develops forms that do not follow logical criteria, but are based on subjective associations and formal parallels, which aim to incite the viewer to make new personal […]
Fig.1 Performance Art Model, Embryotic cell, (2023) My performance art model is inspired by a human cell. The circle emulates the membrane wall of the cell, its semi- permeable wall is autonomous and semi selective, the thin wall allows […]
Performance art unlike any art medium is not an art medium. I share the same stance on performance as theorist Jonah Westerman, ‘performance is not (and never was) a medium, not something that an artwork can be but rather a […]
Updated Statement I often refer to performance art as ‘doing’, as I don’t necessarily see the work as a performance in the traditional sense, but rather gestures, movement, a dance with/in material that’s often not choregraphed. The location and settings […]
Material can seem disconnected to the human, it has a way of disassociating itself, we give it life only to then shut it down, we divorce it because it never truly belongs to us, it becomes possession, because it’s outside. Yet it speaks just like […]
We forget material has agency, it has a life we forget it because we rely on visual/s. Yet this is the very thing that can and does deceive us.
This particular piece was an endurance-based work. When I think of performance art I think of a few artists one Artist being Sandra Johnston, whom uses bare/minimal materials and her own body as the activating role within her work, her […]
Maybe the Sun is God and everything else is image?
Toilet Paper, 2016.
As well as the video, performance – photographs. I want to make a book full with the photographs of the journey and areas implying some of the questions that were asked, and answered by local people in Stoke, some of […]
I went to see this exhibition with the entirety of my bank balance, and it was completely free. Walking through Manchester Gallery you’re faced with a double stairwell symmetrically opposite one another. Paintings fixed to the wall, these paintings scream […]
The footage was examined in a similar way I’d feel clay , the narrative was built from the research and footage, and needs work but it’s something I can toy with. An egg made up of protein, similar in […]