A small selection of recent process-playing on works in progress. 

Magic caravan/sweet sweeper/painting brush/confessional theatre/hand punch and judy box/rickshaw/portable cage/cubicle/duster

Exquisite Corpse 

This work was shown under different guises at Underculture Contemporary's opening exhibition, For Play, and at the second installment of the exhibition series, For Play II. 

It is based on the Surrealist drawing game, Exquisite Corpse, which requires that multiple players draw segments of a body, without having seen the parts drawn by the other players before them. The result is a drawing completed by multiple authors, made up of components combined by chance. This object invited viewers to join in on a sculptural game of Exquisite Corpse. 

Below are the multiple guises the object took on, as well as scenes from various viewer's explorations of it.    

Port Elizabeth: Join us on Friday 18 April for an afternoon of Participatory-Performance-Play! 

'Pataphysical Performance Pieces: Backstage.

These are a series of studio "messings", taken during the making of the 'Pataphysical Performance Pieces. I think somehow these scenes end up being more interesting and exciting than the finished product, but also add a further layer of meaning to the finished objects, as you can see the space and state they were conceived in.

Underculture Contemporary Art Gallery.

If you'd like to know a little bit more about me and my work, check out my profile on Underculture Contemporary's site. The gallery is relatively new to Port Elizabeth and has been bringing some interesting stuff here which is exciting as it doesn't happen often in this limbo-town!

Here is a link to my profile. While you're there you can browse the site too!

http://underculturecontemporary.co.za/sample-page/emma-minkley/artist-statement/ 

'Pataphysical Performance Pieces.

This is a group of objects I made in 2011. I am very interested in the absurd literature of Alfred Jarry, particularly his "Exploits and Opinions of Dr. Faustroll, Pataphysician". These things were made in the mode of Jarryian performance; as a play, a constant dialogue with parts of the artwork. Each piece can be seen as an absurdist prop in a 'pataphysical theatre or carnival.