artist statement
artist statement ::
I am a Louisiana performing artist. Trained in traditional theatre, my practice in the new century has often explored time-based work in performance art, experimental theatre, visual arts, handmade costume, performers' objects, and digital media design [documentary shorts, video and still image projection, performative photography].
I came to art through visual art and classical music very young, before experiencing theatre. I approach performance from the sensory perspective of a landscape painter or musical performer, so my pieces lean toward vivid imagery, symphonic composition and the abstraction of poetic structure. My projects fuse realism and postmodernist performance into integrated, multi-layered artworks.
The content of my practice is humanity's extremes: violence, war, fear, endurance, resilience, sexuality, body issues, psychiatry and mental illness, culture and geography, ghosts, death, and mourning. My material includes original work, and existing literature I adapt for performance: traditional western writings and ancient epic tragedy.
Physical and chromatic elements of performance are as important to me as the textual or vocal. I enjoy juxtaposing the intimate with the epic, and toying with tools such as strategic spatial relationships, physical contact, and performers' stillness. I deconstruct the content of my projects during creation, to distill humankind's most primal experiences.
~amy woodruff
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Woodruff's works and website are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.
