Amy Frampton

This fantasy documentary film features Nyamo, a fictional character that is part of a largely unknown cyber-subculture 'Kigurumi'. Within the documentary, Nyamo and her creator share a story of their experience of grooming within virtual space. The artist produced this work using a method of collaboration, with the intention to create an ethical documentary. Playing between the lines of fact and fiction, this piece asks the viewer to consider the tension between our occupation of virtual and real world space.

Nyamo is alone, trapped between reality and virtual space. A story of isolation and displacement, the film follows 3 characters. Nyamo encounters a potential friend ‘Lhan Rivers’ a gamer girl. But Nyamo, incompatible with both environments is helpless, as she tries to interact and save her potential friend. The third character, an adult male gamer - ‘Virusaur’. This character uses deception to groom and destroy both Nyamo and Lhan.

A performance piece exploring the fluidity of identity in virtual space, following themes of censorship, anonymity, and identity authenticity. This work was produced within Coronavirus lockdown within a 24 hour time frame, with limited resources. Created in response to the shift in our time spent between reality and virtual space, as lockdown regulations where put in place, and our daily interactions became based online.

In this performance piece the artist sits wearing only a latex 'strong man mask'. The techno-blender over flows and its pathogen liquid spills out upon its user, seeping into the eye and mouth hollows of the mask.
Obscuring the artist's view, as she struggles to re-sight a spoken word piece. Playing simultaneously a moving image piece that tracks multiple versions of 3D avatars developed by the artist.

MOMO_ titled in response to a virtual thread that swept the internet, in which a masked female privately messaged young internet users encouraging them to harm themselves and others. It then became apparent that this was fake news, there was no ‘Momo’.
This performance piece explores feminine positions, cultures and practices in virtual space. The Artist Dons a latex mask with full lips and a flawless complexion, as she attempts to take the perfect selfie from the most flattering angle. The voices of powerful female speakers begin but become quickly inaudible as they struggle to be heard. Behind the artists performance, obscured, a series of moving images, a bellydancer gyrates, a Daddy long legs and a house spider battle for their lives, and lastly, the still practiced tradition of female genital mutilation.