kingBIRD: Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes

'Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes'

The performance:

Believing nothing is never lost: by letting the clay change its form and shape continually it is mimicking how life is always moving, - even on top of ruins something will grow. It is also about the journey by building on top of something already there, I believe nothing is ever lost. It will always return at some point if we allow it.

Part I:

In the performance 'Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes' shown in Camden Arts Centre, London on the third weekend of November 2012. The first session started out on a clean white space, with a reference to the dream the performance was acted on an enormous duvet. An inkblot pattern referencing 'something beyond consciousness' marked out where the sculpture was to be built.

 A confrontation between the clay and the outside of the artist’s body was taking place, with the intention to make visible objects of the red clay and in the end returning it all back to the colour white, the colour of the starting point, covering the entire sculpture in liquid porcelain. 

Part II:

The second session started revisiting the act that happened the day before, by rearranging the elements of the sculpture. Cutting them open, they blossomed in complete transformation, revealing the inside where the signs of both the sculpture’s and the performance’s origin was to be traced.

Drawings:
As I told in another post, Sophie was drawing her interpretation of the perfomance. The drawings is going to have their own post as soon as possible.