Rebecca Kinsey
50 cent love

50 cent Love, live painting with video, The Art Students League of New York, December 2010.

An intrigue with contemporary walking artists, and the idea of walking as an artform initially led me to document my own movement through spaces using various forms and processes, material investigations and media.

My way of working has become a type of mapping process; a way of experiencing, connecting to a site or place.

It has also revealed an orientation toward repetitive, laborious, and Sisyphean* processes, and an unresolved discrepency between doing and making, and has led me to explore performative actions involving the whole body and its encounters with duration and endurance; thus mapping time, space and the body.

 

* In Greek mythology Sisyphus was a king punished by being compelled to roll an immense boulder up a hill, only to watch it roll back down, and to repeat this action forever. The word sisyphean means "endless and unavailing, as labor or a task".