I shall freely do walks in cultural institutions and likewise formal settings which will make sens and can be put in relation with this specific work.
About the performance:
- The action: walking around naked, though covered with a burka/like garnment made of receipts.
- Like Louise bourgeois made a woman garnment for the men to wear in a performance in the seventies as a confrontation loaded at that time by gender identity and oppression… I make a garnement which connects us to a culture in which the woman are obliged to hide herself in a full covering garnment so that the man do not get aroused (so they say), or maybe they get aroused as hidden women shapes give them free leave to there imagination ?
The act of walking around naked only protected by a burka/like garnment made of receipts, arouses in me feelings of vulnarability and strength at the same time. I dare to do an action in the powerfull art institution without being invited or having cleared it in advance, leaving the receiving of the action to a higher power… making an offer/like ritual onto the alter to power of arts and monney.
I also connect the action to Eugène Brancusi’s work. Read about it by a clic here !
Earlier walks :
2010
- Stavanger kunstforening/the Art Association, august 26.
To see more clic on the picture !
foto GT Åmdal
- Sandnes Kulturbørsen, april 14.
OBSERVATIONS and other comments