We see someone wearing a succession of body sculptures (is it fashion? art? architecture?) as they walk through the city and prompt a variety of responses from the’ Normal People’.
When we work in the bubble of an art school, it's easy for us to forget the world outside and how our work might be perceived by those who have not encountered similar things before.
We are going to take our
work outside.
Starting at the Margaret Street, School of Art, walk, run, slide, skate or use an alternative mode of locomotion for 3 minutes 50 seconds (the length of the music video).
The place where you find yourself at the end of
that time period is the place you will locate your work.Starting at the Margaret Street, School of Art, walk, run, slide, skate or use an alternative mode of locomotion for 3 minutes 50 seconds (the length of the music video).
The assignment is:
Construct and ultimately wear a body sculpture that responds to and in some way fits your location, whilst at the same time mis-fitting people's expectations of what they might encounter in that place. Find a niche or other point of leverage at your location for your construction to echo - a bit like the guy in the video - the costumes echo the things that are thrown at him.
You will be wearing your work, so you also need to consider how it relates to your body and how you will move whilst wearing it.
You will document the process of arriving at your location, finding the bit to ‘riff off’, constructing your attire and any interactions that arise out of you and your costume inhabiting your location.
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