 Traditionally wind instruments are classified as Dionysian - private, internal and feminine. My instrument sculptures are a contemporary response to this subject involving the subversion of a number of conventions, one of which is the gendered classification system. Instead of the wind instrument producing sound from the internal depths of one body and letting it out into the world, the breath becomes reciprocal via the kiss - the player's exhalation is the instrument's inhalation and vice versa; the breath remains entirely internal between the two bodies. Back to Gallery |
Kiss Instrument 2007
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