#Concept:
Baglady 2.0 is a performance with a customised electronic performance tool, a bag that is embedded with a platform for broadcasting sound, digital images [video] and text. This Data is mapped via GPS to the place where collection takes place.
In a recent article in Artforum, “Domesticity at War: Beatriz Colomina and Homi K Bhabha in Conversation” (Summer 2007, pp. 442-447), Colomina and Bhabha explore how the mediations of public and private in the context of war are domesticated and inform developments in fashion, design and architecture. Here Beatriz Colomina writes that "war does not end but evolves, and so does architecture", as does our fundamental experience of space.
sister0 is bag lady living in the wreckage of the new dark ages. A bricoleur, who inherits neo-liberal capitalist waste, wanders through its discarded wardrobe, transforms it and plays with it. Not only collecting material items, she is a hunter-gatherer of ephemeral moments. She collect signs of magic in the everyday, the beauty in the banal. She travels light and carries around with her a magic bag that captures audio / video and streams this on the fly.
Looking for signs in the street, sharing intimate gestures and subliminal signs found in her everyday routine; highlighting the sort of silent conversation that we carry on a continuous dialogue that comes from a proto-linguistic state. Only at the scale of our direct, sensory interactions with the place around us that we can appropriately notice and respond to the immediate needs of the living world.
#Background:
How can technology based art performance can help us understand relations between material and embodied sensory experience and code based practices.
Sister0 tracks down emergent aesthetic subcultures craft knowledges are gained 'on the fly', records and locates them.
I wanted to tap into these various ‘other’ knowledges in circulation by playing a character sister0, a bricoleur who validates and living off the debris and trash of the consumer world.
Inspired by a character from Fasbinnders Film. _Gods of the Plague_.
Here we see in the the bar, Carla Aulaulu selling information and porn out of her wicker handbag.more info
