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CONTINENTAL DRIFT
https://www.jillscott.org
CONTINENTAL DRIFT
(1991)
https://www.jillscott.org
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.
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
ANAT Australian Network for Art and Technology
place: Performance Space Sydney
KuratorIn: Tstoutas, Nick
Dokumentationstyp: Dokumentation einer Performance/Aktion / Documentation of a performance/action
Alternative
Performance with live and pre-recorded video
Medium
Video 4:3
Dauer: 60