I Me Mine: Artistic Self/Artistic Persona

Glenn D'Cruz

doi:10.21153/ps2015vol1no1art456

Authors

Glenn D'Cruz Deakin University, Australia

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.21153/ps2015vol1no1art456

Keywords:

artistic self, artistic persona, performance, video portraiture

Abstract

This work comprises of a series of video portraits and sound recordings that explore the connections between gesture, gaze and voice in video portraiture. Most of the subjects are artists represented in the current exhibition, but the disjunction between sound and image makes it difficult to categorically identify the authors of the sound bites on the work’s soundtrack. Designed to function as an introduction to the themes and issues generated by the Self/Persona relationship in the nascent field of Persona Studies, the work is also concerned with the presentation of the artistic self, and the ‘loss of self’ that may or may not occur as a consequence of artistic practice. Formally, the piece plays with the repetition and symmetry to underscore the vulnerability and mutability of the self within contemporary culture.

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Author Biography

Glenn D'Cruz, Deakin University, Australia

Glenn D’Cruz is an academic, theatre maker and video artist. He teaches drama at Deakin University, Australia. He is the author of Midnight’s Orphans: Anglo-Indians in Post/Colonial Literature (Peter Lang, 2006) and the editor Class Act: Melbourne Workers Theatre 1987-2007 (Vulgar Press, 2007). He has published widely in national and international journals in the areas of literary studies, performance studies and cultural studies. His recent creative work has been exhibited at the Gertrude Street Gallery, Melbourne, the Walker Street Gallery, Dandenong, and his work, The Alterations of AJ D’cruz: Becoming a ‘New Australian’ will be presented at the Performing Mobilities symposium as part of the Performance Studies International (Psi) #21 Fluid States series of global events.