Ignored Spaces
From working with the CCTV, I noticed and discovered all of the spaces which could be used and what is normally ignored by it being a threshold or somewhere we usually store belongings. I want to draw the audience attention to these spaces and how they can be used impermanently. I again looked at Eve Dent and how she embodies the spaces she is in. “My work explores the boundaries between the physical body and the body of a site.” ((Dent, Eve , Eve Dent 2003 online:http://www.an.co.uk/artists_talking/artists_stories/single/59462 (acessed: 18/02/2013))
Eve Dents work is similar to Lindsey Jennings Hill piece which is a journey of the Stage Left Staircase at Hoxton Hall ((Jennings Hill, Lindsey 17/12/2009, Stage Left Staircase, p9)):
“There is a curve in the wall here. Why is it there, what is it for? My body moulds perfectly into the curve in the wall, it feels like it was waiting for me, like I complete it, fill its spaces to make it whole. (I lean my body into the curve filling it with my body).”
The idea of her embodying the wall, I found was intriguing and thought it would be effective for the audience to appreciate these places they wouldn’t normally notice.
I was then guided to look at the work by Willie Dorner. His work entails of
“squeezing human bodies into nooks and crannies for his Bodies in Urban Spaces project. Groups of dancers, climbers and performers wearing brightly coloured clothes run through busy malls and high streets and cram themselves into doorways, alcoves and any gap they can find in public buildings.” ((Bodies in urban spaces by Willie Dorner The Guardian, Sunday 21 June 2009 15.09 BST Online: http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/gallery/2009/jun/21/bodies-urban-spaces))
- Willie Dorner ((“Bodies in urban spaces by Willie Dorner” The Guardian, Sunday 21 June 2009 15.09 BST Online: http://www.guardian.co.uk/
- artanddesign/gallery/2009/jun
- /21/bodies-urban-spaces)).
- Willie Dorner ((“Bodies in urban spaces by Willie Dorner” The Guardian, Sunday 21 June 2009 15.09 BST Online: http://www.guardian.co.uk/
- artanddesign/gallery/2009/jun/
- 21/bodies-urban-spaces)).
From looking at these three artists, I explored use places in the house like the cupboards, under chairs and desks. In these, spaces I would photograph my experience of being cramped and discovering the site. I decided to have this project separate to my work in the CCTV room as we have develop a different concept.