I needed to getting something on the walls. I was going to write out the calendar of events for the project. But I had the urge to get some paint on the walls. On one wall I painted the word ‘SENSATION’ in bright blood red paint.
I realised that my project and my dissertation needed to find a common ground. Something was not connecting, especially as I was trying to formulate a performance, but not consolidating my themes enough to make my message clear.
Maybe I would come back and write everything down about sensation around it.
I then covered the upper and lower parts of the wall with paper initially to cover the space to protect it.
I then liked what I saw. Sensation peeping through.
My dissertation title ( at the moment) is ‘Does sensationalism make great art and great artists?’
It seemed to resemble sensationalism in the in news etc, peeping through enticing you in.
I then painted the word ‘DEATH’ on the other wall.
‘Sensation or death’
It’s seems there is sensation or not.
No sensation = death.
Damien Hirst talks about death in his book ‘On the way to work’.
I love the title of his art piece ‘The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living’
(This I explore in my next blog post)
I then think back to my performance sensation or death.
Performance
Do I shock with a dead person in the chair? I arrive home and chat to them as if they are alive. Not being able to accept they are dead
Do I keep it as a teddy? Who is neither dead or alive.
Do I ask year audience for sensations to play with?
Does the audience have
Jacqueline Paesano Wood 