The Letting Go
By Hugh Fox
Within this installation with video, sound, found object, voice and performance exploring the domestic space and our attachment to objects that have belonged to others, Plum explores her own attachment to objects belonging to the deceased. Detailing the grasping hand, the clutched anatomical strain, the release and response of the body on a musculoskeletal level, the video is accompanied by a soundscape exploring tension and release in experimental and extended vocal technique. The recurring themes in Plum’s work of embodied memory, vocal experimentation and detailed exploration of the incidental appear in this piece, with the most personal subject matter to date. Time, muting, religion, and heroism are traversed through the lens of non-attachment in buddhist practice.
Commissioned as part of Shifting Boundaries Exhibition at Phoenix Gallery, Brighton 2011 for House Festival, Brighton Festival 2011.
