I don't particularly like performance! - mostly due to the fact that I don't want my work to become an act or a form of spectacle. Interactivity has become an interest in my work but I want these to be natural more of documentation than performance as such. I also do not believe that my presence is necessary for my work or at least doesn't need to be shown - instead, I want the work to be for other people to participate in, intervene and ultimately disrupt the aesthetical and physical properties through an act of play. Although... as I was installing my work I found that I was playing with the sculptures. Much like 'Build/Stack/Collapse', I was rearranging the sculptures into different formations, they would collapse or I would push over and making a new form all over again. Repetition is often present in play. Even though the performance wasn't top of my agenda, I wanted this repetitive action to be documented in order to explore play further. I would have preferred it if I had filmed on using a plain background but as install had already taken place this was not possible and so I filmed on cite. I took this opportunity to step out of my comfort zone as it almost became a public performance, as people walked passed they would watch or people stopped to see what I was doing. Even though this was uncomfortable, it emphasised to viewers how the soft sculptures could be interacted with - breaking the boundaries of public and private play. Doing this documentation experimentation led me to think about the possibilities that participatory actions have upon the work... play, in a way, activates the work and this is something I would like to explore perhaps in a workshop allowing people to interact with the work I make and documenting it.
The full video can be viewed here: https://www.instagram.com/p/B4KdAKJnWUq/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link
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