This is my bed.

My performance will largely take place around and in a bed which strongly represents the essence of time which is at the centre of my performance. In the average lifetime, we spend a third of our time in bed. Sleeping, making love, thinking, dreaming, eating, lounging, laughing, crying, in love or alone. Our bed’s are personal to us and we spend a lot of our time with them. We take our bed’s forgranted and we expect them to be there, holding us up, day in, day out.

In a sense I will reference the British artist, Tracey Emin’s and her controversial art work – My Bed. Tracey produced My Bed in 1998 and reconstructed the state of her bed during a dark and suicidal time she went through following the breakdown of a personal relationship. The piece of art work included many ordinary bedroom items such as a pair of slippers, but also was home to bodily secretions on the bed sheets, condoms and underwear stained with blood from her period. In an interview below, Tracey explains her reasons behind the piece.

Though I am approaching the setting of a bed in a different way to Tracey, I feel this reference necessary as my connection to time holds an emotional link to the notion of life and how we spend our time living it.

                                                     My Bed (1998).

Works Cited
Intimate with Tracy Emin – My Bed 2012. Online: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kg5ad44knPA Accessed: Wednesday 8 May 2013.

Image One: My own photograph.

Image Two: Image from Google Images. Google Image Search: Tracey Emin, My Bed. Online: https://www.google.co.uk/imghp?hl=en&tab=wi Accessed on: Wednesday 8 May 2013.