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Rebecca Watson's artwork transforms and disrupts the human body through a mixture of performance and other multi-disciplinary techniques such as video, sound, and sculpture. As a neurodivergent individual, they are interested in how the body can function as a vehicle for communication and fluctuating identity. By creating multi-sensory works, Rebecca examines the ways our consciousness mediates and incorporates the surrounding objects and environments into our sense of self to form new ways of functioning.

 

Firmly focused on the experiential, the intention is to dismantle the subjective experience by disrupting the audience's sensory perception. Achieved through the use of sound and sculpture, which interrupt the original functions of the body, to inform a different way of interacting with the space and expand our perception of our physical self. Due to this, the internal experiences of the artworks hold as much importance as the physical work itself. Rebecca's own body is both a subject and medium in the artwork. They examine how we share these non-linguistic, subjective experiences with others through performance. Thematically influenced by Phenomenology, the study of subjective experience and Transhumanism, the study of utilising technology to evolve the human race. Rebecca intends to examine how we use technology to impact the way in which we mediate the world.

 

'Perambulate' is a recent sound-based performance piece exhibited in a local park. The artwork was composed of collected noises generated by the park and its community layered with intimate recordings of the voice, breath, and footsteps. Combining both has resulted in a thick composition of noises that can, at times, be calming and at others, overwhelming. This piece centres on the sensation of walking through a public space and becoming intensely aware of the surroundings. 'Perambulate' was exhibited as a sound installation and a live performance carried through the park. The sound produced in the piece continued to collaborate and add to the noises and architecture present in the park. However, in doing so, it blocked and overwhelmed the performer's aural perception of the surrounding environment, isolating the performer within the artwork.