Residency - Body's in Trouble
I plan to use this residency to further explore my digital and physical performance methods and my own interpretations of code and coding, including digital code, queer code, and coding choreography. I will use the time and space to research and experiment more fully body movement and gesture. I am particularly interested in the translation from my body to code, via the use of AI and the glitches that occur between the human and non-human selves. With choreography support from Kirstin Halliday.
About the artist
Rooted in performance, my practice uses the human body and new technologies to explore tensions across embodied subjectivity, the body as spectacle and socio-techno constructs of gender and sexuality. My practice builds upon questions around the (non) performance of daily life & identity (Goffman; Butler) in a post-internet context. Drawing on cyberfeminist, glitch-feminist and transhumanist approaches; I investigate avatars, prototypes, ‘false-self’hoods (Winnicott) and the fallacy of the ‘irl’. My works are realised as live performance, performance to camera, sculpture, and video. Recent works have utilised software including Unreal-Engine; Substance Painter; Blender, and Spark AR. I hold a Masters from the Glasgow School of Art and my practice also draws from over 6 years industry experience working as a makeup artist. I have presented internationally including Maleki House, London; Performinstanbul, Turkey; Grace Exhibition Space, NYC; Venice International performance Art Week, Italy. Residencies include Cove Park, Scotland, and Art/Life Institute, New York.
Articles about MV:
Veronica Simpson, ‘Jerwood Survey III’ Studio International, 29th April 2024.
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