Individual performance proposal

The Discrepancy of Reality

In this performance I plan to use styrofoam balls as my sole medium. These styrofoam balls will be stuffed within my clothing to create a textural landscape through my lower body. While the styrofoam balls strongly declare its materiality that the performance is occuring, I intend to improvise short random activities that will accompany my piece as it progresses to the end. My goal is to examine the truth and boundary between the fictionality of the performance, either the reality or theatricality that is being used to conjure such thing. It is like the idea when a person puts its red nose to declare that he or she is a clown.

My budget will be around $50 which includes the props and documentation

Lighting is not necessary in my piece as it will try to critique theatricality and reality.

Any given space can be accomodated with my performance as it only needs minimum requirements in order for the performance to exist.

C.V

fractured
October 16, 2007 Concourse Gallery

Red Show
December 14, 2007 Concourse Gallery

enGendered
Feb 5, 2008 Concourse Gallery

pressure to perform
March 21, 2008 ViVo


Mixed messages
April 7, 2008 Concourse Gallery

Nomadic Convergence
Nov 25, 2008

My mother worked in a factory
jan 26 2009, Brow Gallery

Net(work): a performance art fair
March 20, 2009 ViVo

I am interested in deconstructing the notion of performance art as being real, in a sense that it declares its reality or truth based from real life. I agree with it's physicality or the performer as real and the performance as something fictitious or constructed. Therefore my performance will try to examine a very crucial element in performance art which is "reality" and in what sense is this reality projected; real or not. I think that performance art declares this act of performing which proposes a space or a time line in which performance art could exist. In what ways could this be engaged or problematized? perhaps performing an exorcism of reality through theatricality or vice versa. In this performance festival, problems with signification, temporal autonomy and technological mediation are the chosen topics. I see my performance operating under the problem of signification and my props as a symbol of diaspora which is the general theme of the show.