Mixed Media with Video Performance
After reading a story in a newspaper in Washington DC on violence and repression against women in Chilean prisons, Marisa González initiated a project with the collaboration of women colleagues and teachers at the Corcoran School of Art, to dramatise the impact of violence on their bodies, creating a performance based photographic series, under the slogan ‘the personal is political’. Among the participants were her teacher and artist Mary Beth Edelson, …
Constraint was a mixed media installation with a video performance for the New Contemporaries at Acme Gallery. The video tape was lost and only photographic evidence reamains. Shemilt’s work features on the poster. …
Flyer for Double Vision exhibition at Garage Gallery, London 1976 pdf here. …
“First performed and recorded at Newcastle Polytechnic Sports Hall – re-recorded to be all on the same format at Maidstone School of Art, outdoors in 1975. Recorded again on U-matic portables in 1980. Again on Hi-8 in 1995 and again on Mini DV in 2003. The physical equipment does make a difference to the look of the piece, but the action is essentially in the form it was first made. A form of working to a set of instructions. …
