Erica BöhrBorn in United Kingdom. Lives in: Cambridge
Cambridge School of Art, Anglia Ruskin
I am primarily concerned with mapping gender liminality. I create alternative taxonomies by juxtaposing images and objects and inviting the viewer to form new narratives. In this contemporary allegorical approach I use objects as ciphers for creating new sets of meaning and I work across different media, e.g. installation, sculpture, collage, video, performance and dispersed on the internet (www.virgindyke.blogspot.com). My practice is grounded in research and enquiry and language and politics play pivotal roles. I activate my work by setting up situations and performing actions. Viewers’ participation allows chance and randomness to affect the final outcome. The hyena and mercury function as critical ciphers in this current body of work as metaphors for alchemy, flux, dynamic change and gender liminality.
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Work of art I would like to makeI would like to create a new body of work that continues my investigation into Liminality. I would build on the theme of gender liminality which formed the nexus of my degree show this year. I want to create a large scale multi-media installation, which like my degree show comprises liminal sculptures, assemblages, composite video and sound projections, a very large, especially constructed vitrine, in which my numerous smaller victorian vitrines, doll's house appear, as well as the human figure, which will engage in performance activities. The work would, like my degree show, find a web dispersion point, as well as being situated outside the gallery space. An small text piece in my degree show, a business card size, titled "I Will Not Burn the Qu'uran" is dispersed nationally and internationally and carries on the reverse the address of my blogspot, which forms the cyber-nexus for aspects of my practice. I am interested in liminality as the growing threat of international religious fundamentalism threatens secular liberties, especially gay and atheist rights. The hyena and mercury are crucial metaphors for liminality and reference my African origins. The rhizomic nature of my practice allows for unexpected nodes of connection to form. |
My Artworks (6)
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