PROCESS:

This piece was made with the support of Future Leisure’s Digital Performance Exploration Lab last summer, under the direction of Julianne Chapple. They are a Vancouver-based dance and performance organization dedicated to contemporary movement. “plastic climbs” was filmed using chroma paper, and keying the background out to imagine my own dreamscape world. As an artist, I’m very drawn to inanimate objects and how they can relate to intimacy, vulnerability, and empathy. Experimenting with plastic material and body movement allowed space for restrictive and vulnerable feelings. Activating relationship with perspective and tactility was something I was improvising with. By filming from above, I found this added a point of view of surveillance within an unusual relationship to material.  During the filming process, being engaged with my own body movement and this restrictive, yet transparent material revealed feelings of exposure that could only be shared through digital media.