"artist statement"
Manifestos. Belief statments. Discoveries in the form of statemnts. I don't like artist statements. They ask you to translate into words ideas that exist in other mediums and forms. They encourage you to commit to one way of being an artist - even if that one way is many ways. But once you've written it down, it's the everything of your art. There should be
better ways to communicate your artistic intentions.
My discoveries are in the form of questions. I dance to experience myself. I make art to explore my interaction with the world. I ask questions to find more questions. I make art to decipher my questions.
I work from the body. I seek to create experience both artificial and genuine. I am excited by an architecture of performance in which space and time are explored with an audience in them.
I like to start from questions. Creating performances that decipher questions means starting with a vision of a response. Visual space, lived time. Building movement to carry us through the shaping of space and time.
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electro. magnetic.
I have long been avoiding the use of my full name online, thinking my initials (e.m.p.) to be more than sufficient and just a little bit sexier. Little was I aware that this group of three delicate letters was already in widespread use. I guess that just means I am stuck being an ElectroMagnetic Pulse. If only I had the heels and bodysuit, I could be the next superhero. Well, my boyfriend would love it, anyway.
Instead, I'm going to spend a little time learning more about
electromagnetism (I'm trying to just stick to the beauty of the science and avoid associations with
atom warfare) and a lot of time talking about my performance work.
Why? Because, gosh dangit, the creative process (though I kinda hate that icky term) makes my hair stand on end.
What kind of performance work do I do? Historically I am a dancer, which means I am obsessed with movement. But I am also obsessed with stillness. And with the movement in stillness. And from stillness I became fascinated with observation, perspective, and people watching... me. Because I hate being watched. But I love performing.
Wherein does the difference lie? I am still trying to find out.
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