Boden Boo - 2005
Just prior to my M.F.A. studies at the University of Windsor I began playing the viola. I was constantly hunting for a location in which I could practice the intricacies of playing a fretless instrument. While at the School of Visual Arts I found the 2nd floor women’s washroom – a somewhat spooky space that possessed amazing acoustics – and began practicing there every evening. It was during this period of feeling enchanted by sound and this haunted space that I also began to consider ways to incorporate aspects of music & performance into my visual arts practice; consequently, what came forth was the project entitled Boden Boo.
Boden Boo explores the precariousness of the human psyche while taking into consideration the discrepancies in feeling pleasure, unease and fear while I practiced music within an eerie room. Here, I was interested in constructing an installation eliciting both fear & humor, developing a fictitious creature – a monster – which might objectify such emotions, such human anxieties.
- for one week i inhabited the washroom as MONSTER. for one week I played & played. -
Boden Boo explores the precariousness of the human psyche while taking into consideration the discrepancies in feeling pleasure, unease and fear while I practiced music within an eerie room. Here, I was interested in constructing an installation eliciting both fear & humor, developing a fictitious creature – a monster – which might objectify such emotions, such human anxieties.
- for one week i inhabited the washroom as MONSTER. for one week I played & played. -
HISTORY OF EXHIBITION:
Boden Boo was my first performance-based installation. It was exhibited within the only existing room on the second floor – the women’s washroom – at The School of Visual Arts, University of Windsor, ON in November of 2005.
the installation...
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