Glass Armours

I am an Australian Chinese artist who works with the material of glass. 

The project I am proposing is a mix of object and performance. The object being a suit of armour made entirely of glass and the performance being me, the artist, wearing the suit of armour, which will weigh an estimated 80kg, until collapse by fatigue from holding up the physical weight of the sculpture.

The glass armour is a metaphor for the super ego or the high minded legal or moral ideals that are imposed on us by society or cultural expectations at large. By creating a dramatic visual representative of an object that is traditional regarded with pride in Asian cultures in a material that makes its mechanism for defense ineffective, I want to subvert and confront the cultural anxiety of the notion of pride and why we hold onto it so much.

Through the use of performance, a medium for dramatic storytelling, I want to create a human tension that is analogous to the performances of Marina Abramovic. By interacting with the heavy sculpture, I want to show the human aspect of holding onto something idealized and burdensome and the visual impact over a length of time.