My Degree Show Performance - 7pm

 

In keeping with my practise using temporary mediums I would like to do a performance piece for the evening of the degree show.

I will have previously buried a wedding dress in a 3 ft by 7 ft wooden box filled with soil, worms and seeds.

On the opening night of the show I intend to dig up the dress, dragging it out of the mud leaving the marks in the soil bed, then put the dress on and walk around the exhibition in it - Whilst walking around I will keep to the walkways being considerate of the other artists work.

Once I have done one circuit I will take the dress off and hang it from a nail on the wall facing the soil bed.

The bed of soil will continue to grow and change as the week of the exhibition continues.

Degree Show!

On Thursday the 9th of June from 5.30pm until 8pm there will be a private viewing of the 2011 Visual Arts Degree Show at The University of Salford. As well as my own work (a performance piece starting at 7pm) there will be a huge variety of works including print, painting, textiles, film and much more.

 The show continues until Sunday 19th of June opening daily from 10am till 4pm.

The worms are wallowing in their wormeries. I think they are wonderful creatures.

The Worm Song

Nobody likes me
Everybody hates me
I think I'll go and eat worms.
Long thin slimy ones
Short fat furry ones
Gooey gooey gooey gooey worms!
Long thin slimy ones go down easy
Short fat furry ones stick
Short fat furry ones stick in your throat and the juice makes you go ICKKK!
Bite their heads off
Suck their juice out
Throw their skins away
Nobody knows how I survive on worms 3 times a day!

Happy New Year!

OK, I've not made it onto here in over a month, I'm not a natural blogger you see. For the last few weeks as well as doing Christmassy type things, I have been trying to make a cast of a bottom for my perspex wormery and nothing has worked!
I'm afraid that my student budget cannot stretch to the huge amount of Alginate I would need to cast the entire bottom I desire despite constructing an amazing cardboard cage in which to hold the Alginate in place. I could attempt mod-roc but it won't give me the level of detail I need. :(
If anybody has any bright ideas please let me know...

Meanwhile Apple Baby is looking stunning, it's progress has prompted me to go and purchase lots of veg and fruit with which to make more casts for my hungry worms to munch on. I'll pop some photo's on here by the end of the week.

Check out this artist for some beautiful decomposing outfits!

''Wearable Foods'' by Yeonju Sung
 www.yeonju.me

Ingredients

Well I went on an epic hunt for wormery ingredients today, it's not as easy as you'd think and darn right impossible on foot. 
Compost, check.
Sand, check.
Soil, check.
Worms are in the post hopefully: www.wormsdirect.co.uk
The plan is to buy some clear sheet plastic and vaccum mold it around plaster casts of body shapes, then build a wormery within. I'm so excited about finally getting started!