Material measure I-IIIII
- Sinéad O’Donnell - 2011
Material measure I-IIIII are a series of performance arts called Material Measure which created by Sinead O’Donnell was recorded in a video format in 2011 and uploaded into YouTube. About this series ,the first video of this work was recorded in 22-7-2011, it had been last for around over one year right now and I think she is still working on it but not just satisfied right this time.
In the performance of Material measure I, she was sitting on a wood chair in rectangle space which set by wood (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D3JVM5ownSU) and she kept rolled the A4 paper and then threw them on the floor in a rectangle space which made by wood. After that, in the series ,she kept doing this act in different place from her studio to the museum and the latest one was in the car.
As we can see through her performance, space is ubiquity but it all just based on you. These artworks just inspire me of thinking which spaces belong to us. Nowadays we use ruler, tailor tape for measuring the length, we use pull foot for measuring the square meter
for our living place. So, if there are no rulers, no tailor tapes. What can we use for measuring our space?
My friends was shocked when I first time watch her performance during lunch time with them, most of my friends sitting next to me keep saying that ,she is so vapid, wasting her time and wasting the A4 papers. I smiled to them and I say ‘You guys would not understand what is Art. ’ Most of the times these kinds of performance arts would gave an image of ‘wasting time and money ’ for Hong Kong’s students and even some of the audiences. However, I would say that , performing art is that the things that you will not have bravery for a try but the artists does. Cause I remember that I have saw about another artists using blew plastic bags to fill in the space of a room which was quite similar to this work.
I think this series of performance were not found by a new idea but at least they can woke us up to learn to notice he space that we are having !
