Thursday, September 17, 2009

performance based art

My collabz partner, Tracy Koronik, and I decided that last fall would be the semester of performance pieces.

We came up with this "brilliant" idea that we would fill water balloons with slip (watered down clay) and have our classmates throw them at us while standing behind a white sheet. In theory this interactive/performance idea was really cool, in reality it really hurt.













The sheet.


















This was about the distance our classmates were.













Some balloon fragments stuck to the sheet.














It was about 20 degrees out when we did this so the slip started to freeze.



















Close up of the slip crystals.


















The white Tyvex suits we both wore.


There is a video that goes along with this. I haven't decided if I want to post it or not because it was quite painful!

1 comment:

Tracy said...

In theory it was a good idea. I think if we had used colored water or something way less dense, it could've been awesome! Slip filled balloons + our classmates + cold weather = not the best idea we've had.