Bound Unbound
Bound Unbound Performance // Thread Bare Exhibition // In The Window // AirSpace Gallery
Bound Unbound is an experimental durational performance in which the artist will bind their face and head in a length of material made from traces of previous performance personas. This performance seeks to investigate the constraint of societal expectations and performativity through binding and being bound. Using a material associated with those constrictions, the used make-up wipes from various personas. The artist hopes to dissect their identity through the actions of display and disguise with a view to critiquing and provoking conversation about gender expectations and gender performativity, whilst exploring the intersection between theatrical performance, performance art and performance in everyday life. Finally, they will disrupt, unsuspend and de-install the work after animating the space in this second and final performance in and alongside the Thread Bare installation #InTheWindow at AirSpace Gallery.
Bared Face
Bared Face Performance // Thread Bare Exhibition //Â In The Window // AirSpace Gallery
Bared Face is an experimental durational performance in which the artist will apply and remove make-up to explore the actions of masking and unmasking. Taking place in and alongside the Thread Bare installation #InTheWindow at AirSpace Gallery, this performance seeks to explore the relationship between performance art, theatrical performance and the performances of our everyday lives. With an art space acting as a stage viewed from a city centre street, Bared Face will act as an intersection of the three performance types and their corresponding spaces. Furthermore, this performance hopes to investigate, critique and provoke discussion about gender performativity, gender expectations and the use of masking and make-up for both empowerment and disempowerment.
The Two Of Us:
My Heroin
The Two Of Us: My Heroin // Reclamation Degree Show // Staffordshire University
The Two Of Us: My Heroin is a live performance which was documented and then presented as projection or video work, alongside artefacts, painting, and sculpture.
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Influenced by her mother’s mostly undocumented art practice from before her birth, multi-disciplinary artist Eve Travis explores mother-daughter relationships, the pressures of motherhood, motherly sacrifice, and her own fear of having children in her project named after a past self-portrait by her then-pregnant mother – ‘The Two of Us’. She reconstructs the myth of her mother to seek connection, understanding, and to pay homage to the woman who made her, by making her own heirlooms, manufacturing memories, and restaging and reworking her mother’s past artworks, through the processes of performance, soft sculpture, storytelling, and print making. Informed by artists like Louise Bourgeoise, who creates powerful autobiographical work which questions the limited depictions of motherhood in the historical canon, Sean Edwards who addresses issues of place, politics, and class through creating artwork about his working-class childhood and family, and Anri Sala who through reconstructing the audio of a mute video of his mother dealt with metaphors for the uncertainty and subjectivity of memory and remembrance.
Initially inspired by archiving the Staffordshire University art collection, she became interested in archiving, local history, and heritage leading to her consideration of her own personal, and family history which has been particularly poignant whilst studying the same Fine Art course at the same university as her mother did, forty years before her.