Talking through this project, research and a performance installation based on the Buddhist 9 Cemetery Reflections on the decomposition of a corpse, it’s become all the more clear how important realm-building is for this. A durational installation needs to have a logic that makes the audience feel comfortable to come through and interact. This to me is a realm.
I wish to manifest a whimsical realm of infinite resource. It’s somewhere I have been visiting for this project. I don’t know it fully. I’m getting to.
Here’s some visual cues that taste it.
- Zen Garden, raked and minimal.
-Erotica by Toshio Saeki ^
- Dorothea Tanning @ Tate Modern
Enrico David works in Italy’s three-person pavilion, Venice Biennial 2018
Henrique Oliveira, Bololo, wood, hardware, pigment, site specific installation (National Museum of African Art)
- Liu Wei, Microworld, 2018—a modernist fantasy hiding behind glass
“ My lift into my practicing world
Pink fuzzy exterior
Dirt floor
Pieces of fingers for lift buttons placed into the dirt wall
Sinking into the corner
Sinking into the dirt floor
Vines sinking down and surrounding me with nice smells
Pre-evening light
Naked and slight breeze on my skin
Shaved head but hair everywhere
Door opens onto a dirt path and it’s between forest and jungle
Sometimes dubstep rains down
And there’s food”
- Artwork by Heather Phillipson (below) - Artwork by Dorothea Tanning ^
-These images from film Annihilation give the sense of the organic taking back over, in a surreal landscape encountered through expedition. When I came across this work I remember feeling like some of my creative realm had been articulated brilliantly. More information on the film and book it is based on http://collider.com/annihilation-movie-details/#book-changes
- In the wastelands of concrete lay lurking
[Sankai Juku are a Butoh dance group from Japan. Directed by JANE THORBURN for the Channel 4 Arts magazine programme ALTER IMAGE Produced by AFTER IMAGE in 1982 Filmed in the depths of Battersea Power Station before it was gutted.]
- Throwing your neck back and seeing full consciousness and its doughy textures