Additional Select Works

A collection of additional performance and video works.

Run
Tell me you’re mine
Cottonwood
Topsy and the Soap

Run

Run
Single Channel Video, 9 minutes 45 seconds
2015

Five white men run, cross the floor, huddle. In pairs they fight, rub, struggle against one another. In a circle they stand, rotate, kneel. They dip their hands into a bowl and draw up milk, draw up berries. They exhale. Their breath is dust.

 

Director
Corinne Spencer

Camera
Daniel Carroll

Sound
Holli McEntegart

Performers
Adam Donavon
Luke Doyle
Jason Garton
Chris Renham
Jonathan Rentler

Tell Me You're Mine

Tell Me You’re Mine
Single Channel Video, 2 minutes 27 seconds
2014

A man and woman face each other from a distance. They walk toward one another, attempting connection. The sun is low in the sky, water laps at their feet.

 

Director, Editor
Corinne Spencer

Camera
Allana Clarke

Performers
Corinne Spencer
Daniel Carroll

Little Black Topsy and the Magical White Fairy Soap

Little Black Topsy and the Magical White Fairy Soap
Multimedia Performance, 1 Hour
2010 - 2012

A satirical work which chronicles the adventure of Little Black Topsy as she goes in search of an enchanted soap which will change her skin from black to white.

Fully immersed in the grotesquerie of the minstrel form, Disney iconography, and the Exotica musical genre, LITTLE BLACK TOPSY uses cultural pastiche to explore the complex relationship between black girls and whiteness.

 

Director, Performer
Corinne Spencer

Cottonwood

Cottonwood
Performance, 30 Minutes
2009

A wooden chair is dimly illuminated by a cold, white light. The performer, legs bound to two decayed fence posts with strips of cotton, enters the space, dragging herself along the ground with her hands. Wrestling with her immobilized legs, the performer engages with the chair, fruitlessly attempting to sit.

 

Performer
Corinne Spencer

 

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