This blog tracks the development that began as a self-initiated residency at WORM. This project has been assisted by the Australian Government through the Australia Council for the Arts, its arts funding and advisory body.
Baglady 2.0 is a performance with a customised electronic performance tool, a bag with an antenna and an embedded board, programmed for live wireless broadcasting sound, digital images [video] and text. This Data can also be mapped via GPS to the location where collection takes place. For Instance see some footage from MAKE YOUR MARK.
How can technology based art performance can help us understand relations between material and embodied sensory experience and code based practices?
In a recent article in Artforum, “Domesticity at War: Beatriz Colomina and Homi K Bhabha in Conversation” (Summer 2007, pp. 442-447), Colomina and Bhabha explore how the mediations of public and private in the context of war are domesticated and inform developments in fashion, design and architecture.
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Once again sister0 emerges from the undewater databasethis time as bag lady. She lives in the wreckage of the new dark ages. In the true spirit of a bricoleur she inherits neo-liberal capitalist waste and wanders through its discarded wardrobe thrown into the streets, transforms it and plays with it. But instead of collecting material items, she is a hunter-gatherer of ephemeral moments. She carries a bag with an antenne, and embedded board that catptures these and transmits this to a server..
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Sister0 tracks down emergent aesthetic subcultures craft knowledges are gained 'on the fly', records and locates them.
I wanted to tap into these various ‘other’ knowledges in circulation by playing a character sister0, a bricoleur who validates and living off the debris and trash of the consumer world.
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This project is influenced by the film Gods of the Plague/Götter der Pest (1970)by Rainer Werner Fassbinder. Here we see in "the bar, Carla Aulaulu selling information and porn out of her wicker handbag...noiry underworld milieu ..." characters Margarethe (Margarethe Von Trotta) and Carla Egerer (as Carla Aulaulu).
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