TH: First day in the gallery. Twenty-four panel painting on the wall. First time ever it's been displayed in all its 7.5 m wide glory. The advantage of having a real space at last. LB: A morning of conversations, making plans, moving temporary walls and beginning to construct a dark space for our experiments with projection. It's so good to be back at Uni,, in a real space, and to be able to start working with Sarah and Tim on this project. I find that working in a physical space again, and being able to discuss my work with the others, is stimulating plenty of new ideas for installation.... Click here for a short overview of today. LB: Looking back to look forward: Body cocoon 5, in a showcase Sadly, I had to leave early today, but in my absence, the others kindly installed my most recent hand knitted Body cocoon, number 5, in the perspex-covered plinth in the main entrance to the campus. I finished constructing this in January 2021. Click here for video performances of me wearing it and more images. I find it interesting to see it here, lying in a sealed perspex box. It seems lifeless, compared to the living sculpture it becomes when it's worn. Maybe the showcase's sarcophagus-like form is apposite? It makes me think of Bataille's notions of 'form' and 'formlessness' (in Faiers, 2014, p103)
Faiers, J. (2014) ‘Knitting and Catastrophe.’ in Textile: The Journal of Cloth & Culture, 12(1), pp. 100–108. doi: 10.2752/175183514x13916051793596 (Accessed: 7 November 2019)
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