Performance for the audience afterwards

"Performance for the Audience Afterwards" is an ongoing series of performative photography.

"Concerning the size of the sun" is the first installment in the series. It is comprised of cyanotypes done in residency at The Marble House Project in Dorset VT, 2016 where I got to marry my love of darkroom photography with my dance practice amidst a longed for landscape of natural beauty. 

I created the images through an embodied performative practice—dancing for the camera in long exposure shots to investigate the phenomenology of weight and the feeling of being held over time. I used a pinhole camera made with a 5 gallon bucket and a 35mm point and shoot camera. 

I chose to use the alternative film photographic process known as Cyanotype to call forth questions of duration in performance and the temporal distance of an imagined audience. The contact-print process, and development in the sun, mirrors and foregrounds, the many different layers of contact, connection, and exposure at play in the performance and its afterwards. 

The series takes its name from the Heraclitus fragment no. 3 
"[Concerning the size of the sun: it is] the width of a human foot"

Concerning the size of the sun no. 1

Concerning the size of the sun no. 2

Concerning the size of the sun no. 3

Concerning the size of the sun no. 4