INNER PARAMETERS (CORNER PIECE)

POPPY JACKSON + DIDER ODIOU

NEW YORK 2014

GRACE EXHIBITION SPACE, USA

PHOTOGRAPHY / FILM: MIAO JIAXIN / MILENA ZAJOVIC

Created + Performed by Poppy Jackson

Produced by Jill McDermid + Erik Hokanson

▲ 1,000 ladybirds, gold-leafed dunces hat > 25 minute duration

Jackson sits in the corner of Grace Exhibition Space, facing the wall and wearing a gold-leafed dunces hat. She is motionless, sections of the thin gold-leaf flutter as the performer breathes.

After 10 minutes she releases the 1000 ladybirds hidden from view in her lap. The ladybirds crawl over her body, from her lap outwards to her legs, stomach, shoulders, feet, face, and hat, crawl over the floor, walls and fly through the air towards the audience.

"I can definitely distinguish the resistance of the physical female body to any change in its state of motion, including changes to its speed and direction or the state of rest. A body in tension yet standing still in the power of motion...a body resisting to external physical factors of nature...beautiful work."

- Blue Light Skies

Inner Parameters (Corner Piece) formed part of Poppy Jackson's project Transatlantic Performance Practice, funded by Arts Council England and the British Council through the Artists’ International Development Fund awarded to the artist.

Gold-leafed dunces hat, 1000 ladybirds Grace Exhibitiion Space, New York, USA 2014 'Poppy Jackson + Didier Odieu' Curated by Jill McDermid 15-minute performance Video by Milena Zajovic Cut by Till Riester