STRATEGIES FOR EVOKING THE SENSATION OF EMBODIED ALTERITY:SPACE, MECHANICAL MOVEMENT, AND SOFT SCULPTURE
MFA (Research) Examination Exhibition
Plimsoll Gallery
37 Hunter St, Hobart TAS
Friday 19th
November 2021
The body is both familiar and unfamiliar, inherently carrying with it uncertainty, anxiety, unease, intimacy, restlessness, vulnerability, alterity, and alienation. These proxy bodies give physical form to inner sensations, as though this sense of otherness has grown a physical form and crawled from the body.
In and out
30 x 15 x 15 cm
Pillow, mechanism from Christmas decoration
2021
In my skin I
120 x 120 x 300 cm
pillows, silk, mechanism from child’s toy, rope, metal hoop
2021
In my skin II
100 x 90 x 300 cm
pillows, mechanism from Halloween decoration, rope
2021
Other Bodies I
240 x 140 x 35 cm
plywood, MDF, myrtle, mechanical toy, fabric
2021
Other Bodies II
140 x 120 x 20 cm
silk, plywood, metal hinges
2021
Other Bodies III
200 x 140 x 40 cm
plywood, MDF
2021
The skin I live in
each frame: 180 x 45 x 4 cm (full dimensions vary upon installation)
fabric, cotton thread, timbre, mrytle, hooks, masking tape, metal hinges, metal brackets
2021
The body as space, the body as place I
dimensions vary
bonded fabric, pillows, silk, mechanism from Halloween decoration
2021