a small selection of film developed from the project, interloper
images taken by a viewer/ participant on displayed disposable cameras
Inter/loper is a performative installation by Hyperlink art collective developed for an experimental art fair hosted by Torrance Art Museum in a defunct medical office. The project was led by Theresa Anderson who asked her fellow Hyperlink1 members to respond to her prompt2, participate in person and/or send objects, images, textiles, paintings, light/projection, sound artwork, tape elements, etc. to activate the space and/ or be material for performance.
Focusing on the idea of the camera, photograph/er as an interloper in culture, performance art, + contemporary art- Theresa Anderson, Alicia Ordal and Julie Puma wore greenscreen shirts and responded to our made environment. They interjected body in crevice, interceded between viewers and the work with the act of photography, redefined the space multiple times with tape elements and decidedly photographed and rephotographed the space and each other as part of the performance. Zines explaining the project and disposable cameras were available for viewers and as points of conversation.
“My personal interest in the idea of an interloper in contemporary art has two main levels- my personal issues of often feeling as if I don’t really belong anywhere- and through years of working on performance art projects as a means to explore ideas, feelings, spaces, objects. As such I am typically not interested in making a performance work for the resultant document- it is for the moment where everything in my mind slows down and I rest with and feel the work outside my body. In many of my projects I thought that the camera was intrusive and disruptive as it was not written into the work in a meaningful way. Perhaps inter/loper pokes serious fun at our current cultural obsession with internet photography while allowing myself to explore in a performative work all the ways photography makes me uncomfortable? I am still thinking about the ramifications on my work but continue to be inspired by Ralston Farina who “called his work “Zeitkunst” (Time Art), directing it not to the audience’s perception but to their memory of what was perceived.3 “”
-Theresa Anderson
1 http://www.hyper-link.org/
2 inter/ loper {[inter- between, among] loper- run, leap} person, plant, building, planet, idea, object interjected into something established
contemporary art is an interloper [a lover/ my lover]
{{photography as an interloper in performance}}
that sprouts, abstracts,
interjects, intercedes
disrupts something perceived as stable
folding back and forth between object, performer, sound, light, photographer, performer each fold back and forth defy definition
I sent a call
let’s be real
fear of fairy
gardens
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