This week we are featuring the artist Caroline Boileau, and her work “A VERY PERFOMATIVE STRUCTURE”. Since 1995 she has been using installation, video, and performance, to examine the connections between the body and its environment and also question the body as a social construct. In her research she addressed the influence of medicine (historic, popular, and scientific) on the construction and understanding of what constitutes us as human beings.
This is what she says about her work:
“A Very Performative Structure is a mobile piece of furniture, a transformable structure waiting to be unfolded and interacted with. In shape and colour, it references a glass bookcase, a hospital cart or a large toy. It is a space where futile and important objects coexist and are displayed, sorted out and made sense of. It is first and foremost a performative structure, a teaching tool used to present the blurring of my social roles. This Very Performative Structure hovers somewhere between the cigarette girl, the femme orchestra and the bag lady’s cart. It is contaminated by its context and always on the verge of formal and conceptual re-configuration. Objects are added and removed. I can talk from behind it, show videos within it, and serve tea from inside it. In and around it, I am both subject and object, surveyor and surveyed, analyst and analyzed subject, doctor and patient, waiting to interact.”
You read more about her work HERE.
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