I chose the first dance video, AMA, a short film performed and directed by deep sea diver and underwater filmmaker Julie Gauiter.

LINK: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bdBuDg7mrT8

The task of the project is to make 1 mixed media sculpture, consisting of 2, no more than 3 main materials. The model should contain minimally 1 curve element (planar or volumetric). The sculpture should capture the mood and/or essence of your selected Dance piece.

The sculpture is not a literal representation of a scene or a dance pose.

Ideation – Woman in the society

Women play a vital role in Human progress and have a significant play in the society. However, women are still considered inferior to men even though women have achieved greater heights in all fields, there are just a fraction few. Unfortunately in may instances it is parents who are to blame for instilling value of being submissive  onto a girl. 

Girls – we are being sheltered and over protected in an authoritarian manner. No boyfriend before 18, no clubbing and drinking, come back before 12. 

Girls – we stuck at the fine line between Protection and control. 

The key words that I choose is protection and control. 

The difference between control and protection

Control provides a form of protection, is a degree of resistance – no freedom, keep you  safe, no space to grow.

Protection – a certain degree of freedom, you can do whatever you want, there is a protective circle around you but it doesn’t constricte you, when it move, it move with you.

Exploration

I have developed two model that express the fine line between Protection and control. 

1,  The Hanging Sculpture

Material – wire x stocking x stone 

The stocking symbolised the idea of protection and the wire symbolised the idea of control, the manipulative parents trying to control our life. The stone represent, the girl. 

What I dont like about this model – Can’t really show the fine line between protection and control 

2, The Grounded Sculpture

Material – paper x stocking

The paper sculpture symbolised the idea of protection, and the stocking  symbolised the idea of Control.

What I dont like about this model – Aesthetic – is bad, and its hard to work with stocking.

Inspiration – The Wire Sculpture of Ruth Asawa

The essence of Asawa’s art in wire has to do with transparency and interpenetration, with overlapping, shadow, and darkening. Her forms appear simultaneously inside and outside, sometimes revealing their inner space, sometimes their outer. 

This shifting perspective makes the forms dynamic, and gives them a quality of vision-in-motion. Hanging individual works in series adds further layers of complexity, as the overlapping compositions become artworks themselves, which change as the viewer changes position.

Final model – A Hanging Wire Sculpture

Bottom- Protection
Middle – the fine line between protection and control
Top-Control
Parents have the control over the wire you attached to the Stone – the girl.

When you started out, you can be anywhere, but your parents decided to pull you up or down, if you go down which is where protection is, where you have the space to grow, opportunities, everything you need, you can move freely, you are protected but not restricted, cause you have the space, freedom. 

Move the stone down – more freedom
Move the stone up – more control 

But then if your parents are very straight, it view you in and now you feel constricted, not enough of space, freedom to grow to fully show your capabilities. 

In the middle, the fine line between control and freedom, since we are young, we dont have the control over our string, we dont have a say of you wanna be lower down or higher up, its entirely depends on our parents who are in control of it. Parents do it with the best interest from there heart, but they do not see the other possibilities. Some parents just don’t see it.

 

Thanks for reading.