Cocoon (2021)
Video-based performances
Rebecca Watson, Cocoon, 2021, video-based performance, tape and plastic, duration of 3.32 minutes
Rebecca Watson, Cocoon, 2021, video-based performance, tape and plastic, duration of 0.46 minutes
Rebecca Watson, Untitled, 2021. Still from untitled video. Tape and plastic.
Rebecca Watson, Untitled, 2021. Still from untitled video. Tape and plastic.
Rebecca Watson, Untitled, 2021. Still from untitled video. Tape and plastic.
Rebecca Watson, Untitled, 2021. Still from untitled video. Tape and plastic.
Rebecca Watson, stills from Cocoon, 2021. Video performance
Cocoon is a series of video-based performances created during the COVID 19 lockdowns. These performances involved wearing recreations of the artist's body whilst moving around varying spaces, particularly domestic ones. The work focuses on the sensation of inhabiting and expressing yourself through the confines of a physical body. The act of finding yourself dislocated and alien in mundane settings.
An earlier iteration of this piece was exhibited in Misc., an online group exhibition in 2021.