The Tension series centres on the body, its physical mass and its interaction with structured environments. Using my body as both the object and subject of these works, the series continues to test the limits of my own body while creating diverse modes of visualising movement and endurance. In past Tension performances my body has been tightly compressed within a sculptural press, dragged through substances representing my body weight, running and falling through solid walls and floors, and most recently, braced into poses reminiscent of classical sculpture using prosthetic supports. All in all the aim has been to challenge ideals of masculinity.
Everyday, we adorn ourselves with objects such as clothing, jewellery and makeup and pump our bodies full of vitamins, steroids and poisons in the aim to attract a partner or live up to a social ideal of beauty. For Insert Coin Here I explore that idea that ideals of beauty and consumerism will be so intertwined that in an idealised future we may be able to purchase new body parts to both enhance and glamorise our former self.
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