Scott, Jill
Revolving Histories
Titel
CONTINENTAL DRIFT
Datum
1991
Bestand
Revolving Historiesi
Inventarnummer
#bangbang-0719
Autor/en
Scott, Jill
Tstoutas, Nick (Eventcurator)
Tstoutas, Nick (Camera)
Abstract
One of Jill Scott’s favourite healing meditations during her illness of breast-cancer was to imagine that she could shrink her body down into a molecule and wander around inside her own body. From this perspective, she would travel around with a garden-hose to wash out all the cancer cells. It was this experience, which influenced the performance of Continental Drift. On the floors of the space, she had drawn an abstract shape of her own body. In place of the head, stood two monitors (facing the audience like 2 eyes) and she rested on a horizontal plank above. When each viewer entered the gallery space, he or she was asked to sit on one part of the body (organ). During the performance she was blindfolded, and she moved around to interact with each audience member (organ). The audience were treated like the cells in her meditation, and as a metaphor for the hose, she used a miniature security camera, which via a long cable supplied direct live feedback to one of the monitors. She looked like a patient with a hospital drip. Meanwhile on the other monitor, a video played that symbolized the different eastern and western approaches to such an illness.
Tags
1991 Video 4:3 Body Art Feminism Body experience Perception Transforming
Ablagestruktur
Notes
Additional
01 PHOTO : Performance CONTINENTAL DRIFT at Performance Space Sydney, 1991 02 PHOTO : Videostill from the Video shown during the Performance 03 VIDEO: Video shown during the Performance CONTINENTAL DRIFT, 11 min 36 sec, Regie Jill Scott Actors: Jill Scott, Cathy Wu
Remark
2 Photos, eines ist eine Montage von der Performance, eines ist ein Videostill vom Video The video is a stand alone video that was shown during the performance but also in Filmfestivals. Credits for the Video: Actors: Jill Scott, Cathy Wu Music: Andrew Quinn
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Events
ANAT Australian Network for Art and Technology

place: Performance Space Sydney
KuratorIn: Tstoutas, Nick
Dokumentationstyp: Dokumentation einer Performance/Aktion / Documentation of a performance/action

Alternative
Performance with live and pre-recorded video
Metadata
dauer 60
medium Video 4:3