INTERMEDIA- Katie Glenn

Keeping Your Pants On by Merritt Johnson puts absurdity into an everyday activity. It is part exercise  video in the way the subject is spoken about is inspired by modern day guided yoga. This is what interested me about it. I wanted to redo this piece because of the idea that even the most basic activity can be transformed into something interesting. I wanted to completely make the piece my own. I rerecorded the voiceover following the cadence she used to create the original piece. I wanted to do the piece just like she did. If I were to do this piece again I would make the audio clip longer because there were points were I felt rushed.

I created this piece to speak on the relationship I had with my grandmothers. Women I respect and love very dearly. They are both unfortunately deceased, at this time in my life I wish to be closer to them. They are the past that I build my future on. So I put on their clothes and jewelry that I have inherited and wanted to embody their experience. What better way to do this then to do a task they did so many times through out there lives. I folded clothes the way I was taught to, the way my grandmothers did. I wanted to fold as much clothes as I could.

In this project my group choice to create a piece that spoke to us all as women. We wanted to create a safe space for each other, a space of support. We wanted to replicate the safety of a women's bathroom through the use of the imaginary mirror. We also played feminist songs and speeches to create a safety in numbers. It also allowed us to pinpoint when we would rotate around the table where our makeup was set. We needed each other to create a look that we wanted from our makeup. We were using each other as a resource and support to create makeup looks.  This projected was successful in that it was done for us and the audience didn't matter. However as an outside piece there was a lot of learning to be done post. We could have cleaned it up a lot more and focus our themes more making them more apparent. Being beautiful doesn't have to shameful, it can be a voice of self love, which is something a lot of women I know struggle with. The message we wanted to make was

This piece was extremely personal to me to make. I had to do a lot of internal search in order to do it. It is a statement of my processing over a year and half after my own sexual assault. This piece found me in a way. I knew I want to do something destructive. When I am anxious I rip paper thus I wanted to show that. But then I was given the trojan condom instruction sheets, these papers gave me an outlet for all of the frustration I felt after my experience. I have a longer version of this piece that is about 10 mins long thus I will not show it in class but it was a way for my to express myself without the limitation of time. The experience of doing the piece then was especial hard for me because my current partner was my camera person. It was the first time he saw the piece, he got emotional with me making the actions more real. I can only thank him for his steady hands and this class for allowing me to find an outlet for my feels. The version of this piece I will show in class wa