I am animal

Jodi Sharp

2011

Performance, video, paper sculpture

Basing off of my original studies for I am animal, I redid the performance in the form of video.  

I am animal, was undertaken as a continuation on the theme of dissolving the stereotypical human form. In this piece the artist wove  and sewed paper onto her body to make a cocoon that would allow her to transform. 

Throughout the nine and a half hour performance the artist focuses on the breaking down of self, the changing of her identity into something that is more nature based and merging into the environment. The intention was to achieve a deeper personal connection with the world around her through the loss of her own visual identity.  

The time reduced video of this performance was then projected onto the relic of the cocoon that the artist finally cuts off of her body, having, eventually, to return to the world of her own form.