My final project is a combination of performance and video. Essentially, it is four videos playing simultaneously collectively expressing a notion of love. However the type of love represented by these videos is very anxious, almost to the point where love is absent. Two of the videos in this piece are simple gestures; one is a woman obsessively putting chapstick on, the other is a woman wringing her hands. The latter is juxtaposed with someone drawing pictures and words symbolic of love, and the former juxtaposed with a scene of a parking lot, a very still scene that adds a static element to the piece. This parking lot scene, in a way, provides a contrast to the very gestural nature of the work. In this project I attempted to explore the nature of love and how sometimes we misconceive what it ought to be. There is a lot of anxiety in love, however sometimes it transforms itself into simply anxiety.
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My final project is a combination of performance and video. Essentially, it is four videos playing simultaneously collectively expressing a notion of love. However the type of love represented by these videos is very anxious, almost to the point where love is absent. Two of the videos in this piece are simple gestures; one is a woman obsessively putting chapstick on, the other is a woman wringing her hands. The latter is juxtaposed with someone drawing pictures and words symbolic of love, and the former juxtaposed with a scene of a parking lot, a very still scene that adds a static element to the piece. This parking lot scene, in a way, provides a contrast to the very gestural nature of the work. In this project I attempted to explore the nature of love and how sometimes we misconceive what it ought to be. There is a lot of anxiety in love, however sometimes it transforms itself into simply anxiety.
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