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PROSTHETIC FOR PUBLIC SPACE
5'9" X 165 LBS
SHEARLING SHEEPSKIN LEATHER
2008
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Artist Statement
Mobility is the threshold of virtual and physical realities, where the state and the citizen collide, and where the body senses individually and performs collectively. Thus the objects, prosthetics, performances, interventions, and installations I create deal with perception as an expanded field beyond the visual or sensory.
The body brushes up against all notions of reality, as an extension of the mind, emotions and intellectual desires that complete a sense of being human. A collapse of physical space, of duration, has created new paradigms of expectation. If we understand reality to be comprised of mind, body, and environment, then a new experiential dimension is added through overlapping systems of globalization.
The purpose of this work is to uncover how a citizen can have agency in a state, where foreign policy and the manufacture of war are beyond the control of the individual. The discipline of art has historically provided a space for political dissent, and offers support both inside and outside the institutional walls that bear it. It is the literal and social movements afforded to an artist that allows me to continue my research, and contribute to the discourse concerned with the citizen, the state, and paradigms of mobility.
Contact
pwgilles@gmail.com
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