Director Jordan Tannahill and I are working on a short video piece (approx 20 minutes at this point) called Plane of Immanence. It explores the myth of the dryad, alienation and the reconstructed body.
We are also producing a series of very large photographs from the same material. This series is simply called Plane of Immanence Stills.
Below are three images from the series which will be included in Beauty, Art and the Female Form, a lecture at the National Gallery of Canada. The talk by Christine Sinclair (assistant curator Ottawa Art Gallery) and J. Paul Halferty (queer performance scholar) explores the female body in an art historical narrative and my place in this discourse as a woman, an artist and an object.
In 2008, Christine Sinclair curated a show called Subjecting Figures for the Ottawa Art Gallery – about historical interpretations of the female form, the viewer’s gaze, women as object using the Ottawa Art Gallery’s historical collection of nudes and sketches and works by contemporary Canadian artists Chantal Gervais and Melanie Garcia.
Beauty, Art and the Female Form takes place at 3:30pm at the National Gallery of Canada. It is a free event which coincides with the Magnetic North Theatre Festival’s production of my one woman play The Silicone Diaries in Ottawa.
CLICK ON THE THUMBNAILS BELOW TO SEE THE DRYAD STILLS.
