Sarah Bliss: Walking-Marking Wall and Floor Drawings Installation Record

A record of an installation which was a durational performance lasting 24 days. Each day, I spent between 2-4 hours walking back and forth between two walls, making a graphite mark on each wall each time I arrived at it. Over time, the accumulated labor evolved into two drawings: 1) two gridlike wall drawings made of rows of graphite hatchmarks and 2) a straight bandlike floor drawing made as my continual footsteps burnished the floor. At the end of the installation, the wall drawings were painted over and the floor drawing was left intact. The installation explored the investment of meaning in labor; the relative value of different forms of labor; the activation of space through physical and mental attention/intention; and the traces left by the body.

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• sarah bliss
• www.SarahBlissArt.com
• Vermont Studio Center
• performance art
• ephemeral
• body
• site-specific