Interaction occurs.
Here on the page.
Outside on the street.
In the chemicals of what you drink and the energy of your body, your thoughts.
I seek out these cross over points.
These borders, these areas of transmission, of softness, of hardness.
These are the ideas, the energies, the materials I work with.
I make a photograph capture a performance on a hillside, and computer manipulate and add words to push that intimacy into your thoughts.
In performance I metaphorically touch and break the skin of an ancient sculpture (i.e. the Doryphorus) to experience the decay and growth that has occurred through time.
I admit to the noise, and the pressure of too much information.
I pick into your memories, your feelings now, use this intimacy, use this border, the armor of the personal. as my medium. as my work.
©Giles Denmark 1992. (from Intermedia Arts / Mcknight Fellowship Catalogue)
Performance Atrium