Last Tuesday two girls and I made a body based performance for studio concepts which involved one girl being covered with white paper. These were (19cm x 4cm) rectangles with the words from John Marsden’s 21st century prayer. Audience members were asked to come up and tear one off and read a line from the poem out loud. Our aim is summed up best by Heartney, “Freedom, Liberty and self determination are not abstract ideals, but achievements that write effects on our physical bodies” p220. It was great to read similar ideas like Zhang Huan’s In 12 Square Meters, 1994 piece. Where he covered himself in honey and sat for hours in a public toilet while flies covered his skin. In the end, body art is extraordinarily effective in reflecting our common humanity p238.
Heartney, Eleanor. Art and Today. London: Phaidon Press Limited, 2008
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