For my performance, I will be investigating the male role in society now and in the future, and to extrapolate and highlight the issues of being a man, like how do you actually be a man? Is there a man way to do things? Or is this a fictitious visage that has been created for us?
From this standing my piece exploring the male brain, and the effect of decisions we make. To do this I will be highlighting the Neocortex are part of the brain that makes us human and shows us our many thoughts with reasoning and empathy, while also looking at the other reptilian part of the brain that makes us have decisions based on high emotions such as anger love and jealousy. It's from this that I will have two voice over/personas, throughout my whole peace which will include the neocortex and the reptilian as their own stylized personas. As they guide me around the space they will make comments and give me thoughts on what I should do and implicate me into doing action. My task will be to try and take back control from these personas.
My actual peace will have big lean towards Si-Fi and consist of three sections that will be divided by three sets of triangles that come together to make one big triangle, I will be the “face” a mask-like figure that will be part of the interactions but not be a visible form of me. From this, I will walk around and view and interact with these spaces for 5 mins each. In the first section, there be the sights of media and film. The section will be covered in images and segments from news images twitter and so on. From this the face will sit as and watch onwards as the persons try to get me to engage with the images, my engagement will be a task of eating colored sweets from a bowl filled with of blood to show the horrific effect of the consumption of the images that circulate us. The second section will be dedicated a soundscape effect that will look at how men treat women. there will be sets of female manikin heads that are set in rows of three, as the personas make face play music to try and win over the manikin women. This will be a combination of dancing and aspects of comedy. The final section will be in the center triangle and will consist of a watermelon made into a face and injected with blood. This face will be bullied by the persons about his mind and thoughts until their arguments reach a climax, after which a face filled with frustration and pressure will pull out a knife and cut the watermelon as if he was cutting out his own brain and the personas.