a "notion" of defiled space permeats
the hand
collects in
identity
plays with
a defiled space
is named, represented
"ideas about space"
the hand
re-use
tactics
opportunities at hand
poaching
ideas of the city street as
and the identity
cinematic references / cinematic city
posits the "streetwalker" as urban flaneuse
and the city street
as part of an architecture of of identity
following a nomadic
notion of identity architecture
experiments with
identity personal narratives *fictional?
the spatiality of the things we collect.
nexus? street .....and
allusion and illusion
fact and fiction
communicating who we are spatially
to
alludes
presents the viewer with
defiled space, constituted by popular and (WHAT?) discourses, is the site
an intersection of "street" and "streetwalker" is sought, it is the site
the notion of an architecture of identity is explored, it is the site
the streetwalker is posited as urban flaneuse
literary, cinematic tradtions, are followed,
seeking intersections, it is traced and folded
alluding to the site, it is an architecture of personal narrative
the architecture of personal narrative
of architecture and identity
in popular and medical discourses of defilement
an
identity as space
the fictional/factional of identity and the inhabitation of an identity formed via
spatiality core, inseparable from who we are
an illustration of a "trialectics of space"
while looking for a junction of street and identity within an identity narrative (arrgh...of the artist's own)
street-based sex work in the suburb of Babylon, Adelaide.
poaching upon the flotsam and jetsom of identity formation tactical aversions, poaching as a means of negotiating identity space
posturing
inserting
pop cultural texts via cinematic "thoughts about space" and found "things in space"
alluding
from cinema
alluding with thoughts about space representation
and from
playfully
This new body of work for MOP projects has emerged as process of saw mw looking to space from the body out back in and through
errant trajectories
journeys of madness and desire
, defiled space & how it is constructed, it's permeability, it's limtiless possibility for adaption, it's mortal stream, it's appearance in litersture and film this time looking at identity and space, the geopolitics of identity, the spatial imagination, Lefebvre's trialectis of space, via an
while thinking about making, and then making this
In 2005 i exhibted at the Project Space in Adelaide, a show called white trash when i filled the space with an arrangement of heavy and soft forms, concrete casts, of objects, mainly plastic that i had found while walking to and from my artist resident space at the Parks Community Centre.
For Mop projects, i have made a body of new work, having sent myself on a trajectory of seeking, for intersections. between street prostitution and representations of the street in literature and film. eventually leading me introspectively into the tunnels and back alleys of my spatial imagination. multi-layered defiled space in my own backyard. identities and defiled spaces. I discovered nexus [pl? of
Space that roll out or up like a carpet , as i perform identities of myself.
chance plays a part in relation to poaching oportunism?
the fifty foot woman is has occurred in mel's work before, in her Honours submission for the University of South Australia; Mel uses her
as a pop cultural referent
mythologising
literary traditions of the Charles Baudelaire's flaneur and the figure of the streetwalker
