Performer no.1 Dirty Polar Shaman

This is a performance that corresponded with a time based shutter setting on the still camera. I was using Stage blood to spit out when the shutter was released in order to capture the spit travelling through the air in reference to Bruce Naumans' 'Fountain.' On reflection i thought as a series of images something suggested a kind of inhibited movement like some kind of spontaneous revulsion or trance. I was focusing on shamanism at that point and wanted to use performance to transcend but after a few weeks of research and work around the subject i felt i was more attracted to the physicality of shamanism rather than the spirituality of it. I am now focusing on gaining enjoyment from superficiality, quite contrasting from this work were i thought i might gain some kind of meditative silence from performing these pieces.