All tied up and nowhere to go
Whew. Week of creative doom accomplished. I had my MFA candidacy review this past Monday, and I managed to pass with flying colors... and praise even. Quite a change from last semester - and all that despite being sick with stomach ick for most of the week prior. I also had about 4 papers of various lengths due - I still owe the two shorter ones, but my prof is being very understanding about the insanity.
Nevertheless, this about sums up how I feel:
In the Corner
Concept drawing for Interlaced.
Detail.
Frame from installation/dance experiments for Interlaced.
Entropy
These are all basically experiments towards more finished work I'm proposing for my thesis, as described in my project statement:
"The relationship between fashion, architecture and the body in motion has always been fascinating to me. The intersection of the disciplines of fashion and architecture has garnered a great deal of critical attention of late, particularly through the hit exhibit Skin + Bones: parallel practices in fashion and architecture at MoCA in Los Angeles. By putting cutting edge fashion next to innovative architectural projects, Skin + Bones sought to illuminate common methods of working between the two disciplines as well as common concerns about proportion, scale, structure and surface in relationship to the human body. To think beyond the formal overlap between the disciplines to how they impact the body, a dress and a building are both constructed to facilitate certain forms of movement while restricting others - they shape how we think and move. Our sense of ourselves as bodies in space is mediated by fashion and architecture throughout the course of our lives - and the way we interface with the world and with each other directly reflects the advances in both disciplines.
The invisible, felt relationships between bodies and the culturally constructed environment that sometimes restrains them, sometimes frees them and sometimes does both at once is my area of interest in this work. In the Corner gives a situation that at first appears to bind the body, but is revealed to morph to accommodate the model’s acrobatics as she stays in the corner to explore its various uses. Entropy involves one dancer moving about the space until the ordered environment disintegrates and releases her. The dancer’s dress is woven around her and laced into the walls corset-style, implicating architecture as part of her costume. Interlaced will involve two dancers who are linked to each other through the architecture of the Nave by white rubber strapping that runs through their costumes. The simultaneously stretchy and resistant nature of the rubber restricts certain avenues of movement while enabling others; the piece is about reciprocal movement, a striving to connect over distance and direct vs. indirect contact."
I also made a crocheted metal collar for Erebus Lavoie in her debut performance at Shadowdance...in about 4 days. She had a whole old school vampire thing going on, making her entrance and exit from the stage in a coffin borne by minions draped in black. I don't have pics of that yet - I have to get her to model for me in full costume again later, but now I'm really tempted to make more. Especially since I found a site that carries craft wire in lime and absinthe green.
I think I'll give my hands a break first, though.
Nevertheless, this about sums up how I feel:
In the Corner
Concept drawing for Interlaced.
Detail.
Frame from installation/dance experiments for Interlaced.
Entropy
These are all basically experiments towards more finished work I'm proposing for my thesis, as described in my project statement:
"The relationship between fashion, architecture and the body in motion has always been fascinating to me. The intersection of the disciplines of fashion and architecture has garnered a great deal of critical attention of late, particularly through the hit exhibit Skin + Bones: parallel practices in fashion and architecture at MoCA in Los Angeles. By putting cutting edge fashion next to innovative architectural projects, Skin + Bones sought to illuminate common methods of working between the two disciplines as well as common concerns about proportion, scale, structure and surface in relationship to the human body. To think beyond the formal overlap between the disciplines to how they impact the body, a dress and a building are both constructed to facilitate certain forms of movement while restricting others - they shape how we think and move. Our sense of ourselves as bodies in space is mediated by fashion and architecture throughout the course of our lives - and the way we interface with the world and with each other directly reflects the advances in both disciplines.
The invisible, felt relationships between bodies and the culturally constructed environment that sometimes restrains them, sometimes frees them and sometimes does both at once is my area of interest in this work. In the Corner gives a situation that at first appears to bind the body, but is revealed to morph to accommodate the model’s acrobatics as she stays in the corner to explore its various uses. Entropy involves one dancer moving about the space until the ordered environment disintegrates and releases her. The dancer’s dress is woven around her and laced into the walls corset-style, implicating architecture as part of her costume. Interlaced will involve two dancers who are linked to each other through the architecture of the Nave by white rubber strapping that runs through their costumes. The simultaneously stretchy and resistant nature of the rubber restricts certain avenues of movement while enabling others; the piece is about reciprocal movement, a striving to connect over distance and direct vs. indirect contact."
I also made a crocheted metal collar for Erebus Lavoie in her debut performance at Shadowdance...in about 4 days. She had a whole old school vampire thing going on, making her entrance and exit from the stage in a coffin borne by minions draped in black. I don't have pics of that yet - I have to get her to model for me in full costume again later, but now I'm really tempted to make more. Especially since I found a site that carries craft wire in lime and absinthe green.
I think I'll give my hands a break first, though.