Keeping it together

Figure 1. Keeping it Together

Élisabeth Harvey

Third year, Art Education Specialization

Keeping it Together

Nylon tulle dyed with Lac, vinyl, wool yarn

2:03 min Video projection of performance

2017

Weighted

2:36 min Video Montage

2017

Keeping it Together

The video performance, Keeping it Together, explores the body’s surface as a container, a barrier and a mediator of experience. This artwork sprung from an inquiry about the body’s ability to produce and interact. The vinyl embodies the invisible border that our skin imposes on our experiences. In this performance, the body reaches out, grows, evolves by moving from outside its boundaries to inside its container. The containment by the body is rendered by the use of a diaphanous red fibre material being place under and through the vinyl skin.

Weighted

The video, Weighted, explores the body’s weight and its capacity to fill and occupy a space. I created this project as an experimentation to understand the potential of video montage and sound sampling. Transparency occupies an important place in layering multiple bodies to break down movement and fill the screen. The colours create a visual rhythm, but also boundaries, highlighting various lines present both in the space and in the body. The entire video was shot in a bedroom, and some of the upside down image alterations are used to suggest ideas of personal inner space and weightlessness for the body movement.

Please visit the link to view both performances: http://www.elisabethcharland.com/video-performance.