| dc.date.accessioned | 2016-12-28T13:20:08Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2016-12-28T13:20:08Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2016 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/2077/51082 | |
| dc.description | The plastic is always collected for free from local stores.
I was supervised by professor emerita Gunilla Gårdfeldt 2011 at The Academy of Music and Drama within Performance studies. | sv |
| dc.language.iso | eng | sv |
| dc.subject | Performance in public space | sv |
| dc.subject | site specific | sv |
| dc.subject | Benedikte Esperi | sv |
| dc.subject | Queen of Plastic Oceans | sv |
| dc.subject | live art | sv |
| dc.subject | Reykjavik | sv |
| dc.subject | corporeal | sv |
| dc.subject | persona | sv |
| dc.subject | political art | sv |
| dc.subject | MOTIF festival | sv |
| dc.title | Queen of Plastic Oceans | sv |
| dc.type.svep | artistic work | |
| dc.contributor.creator | Esperi, Benedikte | |
| art.typeOfWork | Performance in public space | sv |
| art.relation.publishedIn | 3rd, 4th and 5th of May 2016 | sv |
| art.relation.publishedIn | At Motif festival in Reykjavik, Iceland. | sv |
| art.description.project | This persona or character was first created as an opening event performance at the vernissage of an exhibition at Röhsska Museum 2011 with Brigitte Stepputis: RITUALS (Vivienne Westwood team).
Through this concept I´ve been able to explore and expose sites and environmental issues as well as live art and performance in public space to be understood as an art form that through its presence represents a critical voice against a neo-liberal and capitalistic society that exploits the environment on the behalf of it.
My act was a comment to the fashion industry by creating a bride or queen-like dress made from plastic littering that had covered clothes during their transportations from all over the world to fashion stores in Gothenburg. I made up an imagined continent where this queen emerged from through alarming news about the floating continents of plastic littering in our oceans. Environmental issues within design and fashion carries implicit contradictions from the perspective of sustainable art and life. I was interested in how I could use those elements in my live art.
By being able to perform this piece several times in different festivals etcetera I´ve been able to conceptualize it and sharpen its articulation through my corporeal present.
During three days at the MOTIF festival in Reykjavik I decided to expose the transformation from a “theatrical white character” to my bare naked natural female body in public. I was interested in if the transparent metamorphosis could make the tasks and me as a performance artist more concrete and through that vulnerability bring in new material to me and the spectators to understand its complexity of ethics representing pollution and create art from it. | sv |
| art.description.summary | STATEMENT: The Queen is a boil on our society that forces us to face what we left behind – Plastic Oceans. Like a homeless refugee, this imprisoned body must survive, for an indefinite period of time, without kingdom and without a crown – Without Royalty.
This female body, with its pale make-up and voluminous costume made from plastic littering, creates a “persona macabre“, represents the alarming situation in our oceans – plastic pollution. With her conspicuous appearance she claims time, space and a motif to exist.
A SOLO performance and visual art made from plastic littering performed as a duration performance in public spaces near water. | sv |
| art.description.supportedBy | Motif festival was hosted by Iceland Academy of the Arts in Reykjavik | sv |
| art.relation.uri | https://benedikteesperi.com/queen-of-plastic-oceans-without-royalty/ | sv |
| art.relation.uri | https://vimeo.com/178966179 | sv |
| art.relation.uri | https://vimeo.com/141984774 | sv |
