moth IN A BOX AT UCLAN

On Wednesday 19 September 2007 at the opening of the exhibition, Knox appeared in his guise of Mothman and did a performance. He stood on a wooden bench with the illumination of a bright light from below. In his golden lycra attire, mesh wings and antenna protruding he places on his head a Perspex box. The piece was titled 'Moth in a Box'. The idea of the canon is the categorisation of what the hero portends and determined by the institutionalised and philosophical parameters. These boundaries the alter ego of the pseudo contemporary hero and in this live art attempts to liberate itself. Hence, the 'Moth in the Box' unnervingly manoeuvres it's head within the confines of the space surrounding its head. The surreal and strange repetitious movements concludes to the point of struggle in the box crashing down to the floor and shattering into pieces.

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• mothman
• tony
• knox
• Transvoyeur
• Performance
• Art