Franko B, a London based performance artist, devised a piece of work called I miss you. Similarly to our installation, this piece of work focuses on the interaction between the artist and the audience. Even though both of our pieces don’t have any verbal dialogue, it demands on the audiences own interpretation of the piece. As our performance focuses on the mood of individuals, we hope that our installation allows the audience to feel free to express their own moods and feelings within our five installation sections; painting, smashing crockery, sensory deprivation, say something nice and expressing their moods through music.
The inspiration I received from this performance is the fact that, even though Franko B is naked, each and every audience member will receive different emotions towards the piece. Jennifer Doyle’s review on I Miss You states that the audience’s emotions can range from, ‘finding ourselves crying, laughing, afraid, disgusted, aroused, outraged’ (2011)Accessed at: http://www.franko-b.com/text3.htm
As this piece focuses on the body, and also has aspects of cause and effects within the piece due to the cutting and bleeding on stage as he walks up and down the cat-walk. This for me is very disturbing to see but then again, I did not get bored or uninterested, I wanted to watch more. Even though he repeats his movements for the whole duration, I still found it very inspiring. This could be very mood changing also, in the opposite way that we are trying to create.
Yves Klein- Blue
This performance was by a French Artist called Yves Klein. This performance had women sat in a huge tray of Blue paint, painting their bodies blue; Over and over again. They then go and leave their imprint onto a blank canvas. This performance was focussed on the colour Blue and what it meant to one specific person. This performance made me think about how our piece could incorporate this into our installation. Then we realised that if we painted our bodies and canvases it would represent a fun childhood memory. We have been discussing that myself and Chelsea would paint our bodies and canvases during the piece to express the moods we are personally feeling.
Dallae bae, Drawing body painting performace. (2010)
This performance is a very exciting piece of art; this is very inspirational for our painting segment in our installation. The video expresses one artist paining on a huge floor canvas with use of two other painted body performances, in which are also used to be painted on by the main artist. What inspires me about this piece is that, all of the audience members are sat there watching for the whole period of the performance and throughout the performance they respond to what is happening. The audience are thoroughly enjoy it, as they all gasp and make genuine sounds to employ that they are enjoying it.
In our performance, as we are not only painting the canvas in correlation to our mood, we have been thinking about painting ourselves and each other. (Myself and Chelsey). Also for the Body installation piece we have been discussing about having Abbie and Rosie stood in front of two mirrors commenting on what they don’t like about their bodies onto the mirror in lipstick, and maybe then invites the audience to perhaps rub off the comment and state something nice about their body. This will not only change the performer’s mood but also the audience members too.
For the music part of our piece we have also had the idea that Alex would be in charge of the music and then expressing how she feels through dancing.