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PARIP 2003 NATIONAL CONFERENCE: 11-14 September PAUL+PAULA
The ‘Madeleine’ project is a durational, time-based piece of performed photography that will take place during PARIP 2003. Drawing on specific sequences from Hitchcock’s film Vertigo, Paul & Paula (Paul Jeff & Teresa Dillon) agree to be ‘made over’ by each other, playing with the notion of conformity, beauty, desire and the ideal ‘gendered’ image. To achieve this, they spend a day in Bristol buying for each other a whole new ‘identity’ and slowly transforming their appearances without informing each other of their intentions. This processes is recorded photographically and digitally. Juxtaposed against this straight record will be a fictitious piece comprising a text composed of stylised B&W photographs based loosely on heist movies such as The Getaway. Complementing these records will be a series of B&W and digital profiles taken of Paul and Paula before and after the transformation. Within the conference the ‘new’ Paul+Paula will present themselves, along with elements of the recorded footage and images. This will provide the impetus for the discussion addressing how performance and creation of the ‘Madeleine’ project can contribute to existing knowledges within, performed photography, performance, visual art and sociocultural views on identity, beauty and desire. In focusing on this, the interdependency between research ‘through’ and ‘into’ practice will be examined along with notions of 'professional' and 'academic' practice and the role of reflection and documentation across media. Paul Jeff is a photographic artist and performer whose work is mainly expressed through the hybrid form of ‘performed photography’. A major theme in the work since graduating from Derby in 1987 has been the representation of women, or woman as image, earlier work with partnerships Klanger and Boink was concerned with the deconstruction of appearance, through the metaphor of the feminine. Paul Jeff is a senior lecturer in Art and Design with the University of Wales and Head of Photography at Swansea School of Art. Teresa Dillon is a performer, visual artist and researcher whose interdisciplinary work is mainly expressed through performance and installation. Trained in theatre studies and psychology a major theme in the work since graduating from Glasgow University in 1998 has been concerned identity, memory, location and the everyday, which has been realised in various collaborative projects with Pearson Brookes et al and in solo performances. As a researcher, her interests lie in the psychology of art and music, focusing in particular on the role of technology.
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