The work is a performative sculpture, the blender has been reimagined as a musical instrument. Dowry practices in South East Asia have been a point of reference in my works. A cordial assemblage of toilet plungers to giant food processors; all
piquantly centering the female as a facilitator of housework.
Primitively, objects of aesthetic value have played a role in ritual and ceremonial aspiration. My work also channels the parallel of art and ritual; Regularity, rhythm, other predictable elements in time and space are
organized with a predictable and unpredictable structure, producing
the tension and release that is integral to an aesthetic response1.
While ritual weaves social order, art can perhaps do the same sans
order and principality.
The work becomes a revered object somehow, desiring to inspire ritual. One that is set in a reversal of roles.
1
JOURNAL ARTICLE; An Ethological View of Ritual and Art in Human
Evolutionary History,Ellen
Dissanayake Leonardo
