Boll II
Boll II
Boll II
Boll II
Boll II
Boll II

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