EXPLOITATION OF EFFORT
work in development
Filming by Lusy Productions
Exploitation of Effort, might be a research-led project centered around a physical investigation of effort and its role in/how it is used by society.
It probably furthers several resonant themes of my work to-date – effort, endurance, resilience and duress. Maybe it seeks novel perspectives around my central creative preoccupation: the nature and transformation of spirit and being.
It could be interested in exploring the function / dysfunction of effort, gender coded labour, and societal relationships to effort. Perhaps this may result in a series of efforts inspired by the paradox of striving for effortlessness within extreme physical demand, whilst questioning the transformative capacity of endured effort.
It might be explored through intersecting traditional labour (lifting heavy shit, moving rocks, painting walls, digging gravel) with the ecstatic exertion of showgirl glam… What happens when you pair the dysfunctional yet expected effort of high heels, fake lashes, faux nails, with some bloody brute strength ...? Effort as exposure, as research, as real.
How this will all manifest we don’t yet know, but we’re finding out..
duress to impress
attritional form,
compression
heat
metamorphosis of marble
we are not infalliable
you are relentless
you love effort
effort in exertion, in restraint, in stillness, in abiding, in controlling, in defiance,
effort to communicate, to please, to connect, to satisfy, to placate, to hope, to want, to forget, to forge forward..
no effort at all
its effortless
transformations of spirit across a lifetime
do i use effort to fabricate meaning, tension, risk, drama, investment, care...
how do you use effort.
what is your relationship to effort
why does effort guarantee validity - does it
are we exploiting effort
