Boll II

Performance
20 mins
FEM Festival
Boll, Centre de Cultura de Dones Francesca Bonnemaison, Barcelona
Curated by Denys Blacker
Photographs by Marta Vergonyos

'Victoria Gray’s article 'Boll (2014): Curating Affective Knowledge in/as Performance,' explores the ways in which Gray’s more recent practice expands upon and curates lived experience. In the artwork Boll (2014), the artist attempts to find a way to translate the affective event of internal body trauma from surgery through a poetic performative assemblage, which engages potential spectators through a relational encounter in everyday spaces. Thus the private and personal, the deeply felt wound, is expressed within a public space. Its affects effect others, and thus resonate.'

Extract from 'Expanded Practice and Curation as Creative Process'
(Linden, J & Campbell, P (2016) 8, Repertório, Salvador, no 27)

Forces: mascara; sugar; smoke; abort(ion); fem; window; breath; shell; secrets; dying; a young woman; coughing; women in a circle; carrying; young women asking sensitive questions; cradling; laying; settling; the night; cotton; wool; black paint; fumes; toxicity; gown; legs apart; coin-sized piece on a silver tray; cancer; cells; sex; penetration; closure; numbness; cervix; phantom cells; internal scarring; quickly; smell; phantom smells; stuffing; shrinking; dampening