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Difficult Joys was a choreographic installation performed underwater; a performance accompanied by a series of ice sculptures. It was performed in two places; firstly in 1995 at the University of Surrey as part of a conference called 'Border Tensions', and secondly at Dartington Arts Gallery in Devon in 1996. In this second version the installation included ice casts of Jools' face. The performance lasted one hour and involved writing underwater.
The ice faces are metonymic of the female body. They hang gaping in the air, but they conceal the labour that made them. The cold burial and hovering panic of alginate on my face, and weeks of trying and failing to make moulds that held water, and then daily pilgrimages to the chest freezer, to coax faces out of red plastic. |
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