Isabella Ng

a bridge, on a hill, by the pond
Performance

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Nov 2009

42 min

New Blood III--Chicago Cultural Center

This performance attempts to find transition in fixity and consider the transitory potential in and between destinations. We begun by identifying and defining destinations from the following two sources: i) Miley Cyrus’ The Hoedown ThrowDown ii) 8 Frames from Broken Bloosom .In the HoeDown Throw Down, dance is understood as a series of moves to be individually presented on the body. In the song lyrics, each manipulation of “it” is a destination, therefore “pop it” and then “lock it” are two distinct locations in the dance. The HoeDown ThrowDown is emblematic of a particular approach to movement, one that regards dance as a progression of moves or destinations to be presented on the body.In response, we collected 8 frames or 8 locations from the tragedy of Broken Bloosom. As a sequence, these frames suggest a linear timeline as well as transitions in a story. However, these still images can also be seen as isolated acts independent of chronology. Inspired by Miley’s descriptions of movement destination, we developed descriptions for each frame. Once described in language, the images formed a narrative seperate from the narrative of the film. Within both groups of destinations and narratives , we further investigate questions of transition. This is the source of the movment for a bridge, on a hill by the pond, and the performance also involved hair cutting, eating a fish, honey, a man laying behind the blinds and a video of sun rise and sun set.

Jimmy made a mountain for himself so he can see himself flying like a mountain. (+) They have been looking for the love seat since Feburary 29th.they have tried to jump. They thought It was by the mountain.
Installation

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March 2008

2008 BFA Thesis Exhibition--Gallery 2,Chicago

This is a collborative project, with Mark Beasley, that are installed in two spaces that are right across to each other.

In Jimmy made a mountain for himself so he can see himself fly as a mountain, the floor is installed with imitation marble tiles and a love bench ,which is made out of paper with wodd grain pencil drawings,is hung on the left of the space. There is also a performer wearing a mountain costume, who is watching a projected Second Life mountain man across the space. The performer is trying to see the SL mountain-man fly, which happens every half an hour on the 12th and 42nd minute of the hour. The real life mountain-man continuhtously and longingly watches the SL version of a mountain-man as they mirror/perform off each-other.

In They have been looking for the love seat since Feburary 29th.They have tried to jump. They thought It was by the mountain., the wall and the floor is covered with faux wood grain wallpaper. There are two projections on the ground, the one on the left is a live feed a mountain man flying in Second Life as mentioned above; the one of the right is a live feed of two Second Life characters in a garden trying to reach the love seat that is installed arcross the space. The characters continuesly recite texts about seaching for the chair and glitched.

We were interested in different levels of realities and we were exploring the possiblities between the physical and the virtual world.