Yoko Ono was a pioneer of performance art, in the mid to late 60s, she performed 'Cut Piece' a performing art display where she invited members of the audience to come up and cut strips from her clothing, "while the scraps of fabric fell to the floor one by one, the unveiling of the female body suggested the total destruction of the barriers imposed by conventions..." as the performing art piece by Ono continued it "...became an aggressive act - still motionless, the artist was by now almost naked exposed in all her vulnerability" (Aware, Art Fashion Identity By The Royal Collage of Art, London, © 2010)
Vulnerability through nakedness
Unintentional exposure
Changing/altering nakedness
How can one be naked and dressed at the same time?
How can I follow the conventions of dress yet still emulate the emotions associated with vulnerability through staying visually dress?
"Scraps of fabric fell to the floor one by one"
There is an emotion in these words, you can almost feel what it would be like to slowly be revealed with ever snip of the scissors.
The brush of fabric over the skin I believe would have the same effect, you think of when you are wearing a silky dress and when it slip off, it melting down your back and frees itself from your shoulders, your waist and hips, freedom is being felt, you step out of the garment and observe it laying motionless there on the floor.
I imagine a dress of smooth draped fabric. The weight lays in its tucks and hangs from the points on the body, as you move the sensation of falling fabric brushes against your bare flesh, the weigh shifts as your body moves, "scraps of fabric fall to the floor one by one"
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