Surveillance

[finally uploading this after finding it hard to post on streaming services due to music copyright] this was a duo act myles and i put together during the pandemic for a virtual show called “e-go”, which was one of pseuda’s projects during their curatorial residency at counterpulse and ultimately streamed as a special presentation by princess (a drag night at oasis). we knew from the outset that it would be streamed virtually and choreographed it as such – mid-pandemic i had approached myles asking if he wanted to collaborate on a duo piece where we played with a nontraditional concept of being unable to occupy the same space. ...

used opencv to identify vertices fit to my face, used plastic wrap as a clear pattern that i transferred the dots to, marked lines connecting the dots, cut it out of vegtan with an xacto (very labor-intensive), beveled and slicked all the edges (so many!), wet-molded the mask to my face, dyed black, applied retroreflective tape dots to the vertices, added hardware. ...