This is the 1st term of my 3rd and final year in higher education (hooray). A practice is evolving to adapt to activities beyond university. Under the loose umbrella of ARTPOP (a collaborative movement inspired by, among others, The Velvet Underground, Leigh Bowery and Hugo Ball), i have begun a year-long (at least) interconnected series of digital prints, films, writing, music, costume and installation. I want to be performative, reactive and collaborative. As i write about the link(s) between the punk subculture and performance art in my dissertation, research begins to inform (for example) the costumes i make and the music i play, and the sentiment behind my various outputs becomes (hopefully) more cohesive. In short, my current practice is informed by: punk and its related cultural movements (new romantic, new wave, no wave, madchester), 20th ct. performance (the Dadaists, Gutai, The Club Kids), 21st ct. performance artistry (Mighty Boosh, Lady GaGa) and contemporary cultural commentary (the poetry of hedonism, sex//drugs//sausage rolls).
