Public Space Performance Intervention
Lilianfels Park, Katoomba
19 Dec 2024
As part of a trial to create happenings at Katya Petetskaya’s garage studio on Cliff Drive…
I was also interested in the surrounding public space; the context of place in relation to our designated ‘anchor building’.
This part of Cliff Drive, is surrounded by the Echo Point Lookout, a foodcourt and Lilianfels Park. Through the process of walking several times from my home (also in Katoomba) to this area, I encountered light cardboard papers and plastic along the streets, and wedged between bushes along the edge of the bush trail.
I decided to focus on piecing together discarded cardboard, as the material for a possible performance action on the day.
…embodying my relationship with this endless packaging material which I wheel out in in a yellow bin, every fortnightly…
A note: I used this material creation process to attempt one of the many approaches Javanese dancers use to transform themselves in plain sight, when putting on a mask. I found a way of flattening my upper torso in order to lower my face to the ‘mask’. Then, by gritting my teeth onto the wooden pegs affixed above, I complete the image by ‘being the mask’.