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CONTINENTAL DRIFT

Scott, Jill; Tstoutas, Nick; Tstoutas, Nick

One of Jill Scott’s favourite healing meditations during her illness of breast-cancer was to imagine that she could shrink her body down into a molecule and wander around inside her own body. From this perspective, she would travel around with a garden-hose to wash out all the cancer cells. It was this experience, which influenced the performance of Continental Drift. On the floors of the space, she had drawn an abstract shape of her own body. In place of the head, stood two monitors (facing the audience like 2 eyes) and she rested on a horizontal plank above. When each viewer entered the gallery space, he or she was asked to sit on one part of the body (organ). During the performance she was blindfolded, and she moved around to interact with each audience member (organ). The audience were treated like the cells in her meditation, and as a metaphor for the hose, she used a miniature security camera, which via a long cable supplied direct live feedback to one of the monitors. She looked like a patient with a hospital drip. Meanwhile on the other monitor, a video played that symbolized the different eastern and western approaches to such an illness.

Performance Space Sydney, 1991

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Additional

01 PHOTO : Performance CONTINENTAL DRIFT at Performance Space Sydney, 1991 02 PHOTO : Videostill from the Video shown during the Performance 03 VIDEO: Video shown during the Performance CONTINENTAL DRIFT, 11 min 36 sec, Regie Jill Scott Actors: Jill Scott, Cathy Wu

Remark

2 Photos, eines ist eine Montage von der Performance, eines ist ein Videostill vom Video The video is a stand alone video that was shown during the performance but also in Filmfestivals. Credits for the Video: Actors: Jill Scott, Cathy Wu Music: Andrew Quinn

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vwg:declare 1991 Video 4:3 voc:voc_Genres:voc_Body Art voc:voc_Bezüge:voc_Feminismus voc:voc_Themen:voc_Körpererfahrung voc:voc_Themen:voc_Wahrnehmung voc:voc_Handlungen:voc_transformieren

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anderesformat: Performance with live and pre-recorded video
camera: Tstoutas, Nick
dauer: 60
doctype: Dokumentation einer Performance/Aktion / Documentation of a performance/action
eventcurator: Tstoutas, Nick
eventplace: Performance Space Sydney
festival: ANAT Australian Network for Art and Technology
function: Performerin, Regie, Videomaker
jahrgang: 1952
medium: Video 4:3
performers
remark: 2 Photos, eines ist eine Montage von der Performance, eines ist ein Videostill vom Video The video is a stand alone video that was shown during the performance but also in Filmfestivals. Credits for the Video: Actors: Jill Scott, Cathy Wu Music: Andrew Quinn
schlagwort: Genres:Body Art;Bezüge:Feminismus;Themen:Körpererfahrung;Themen:Wahrnehmung;Handlungen:transformieren
sprache: eng