Moving Image
Amy Frampton
London based Artist Amy Frampton works primarily in film, installation, and performance. Since her graduation in 2010 with a BA 1st class honours degree in fine art, Frampton has developed her creative practice, working on numerous self-lead and commissioned works. Based at Tap studios in Southend-On-Sea until embarking upon her master’s degree in 2018 at The Royal College of Art.
'Currently exploring notions of reality, my practice considers the tension between our dual occupation of real-world and virtual space. In current times we are increasingly questioning reality and what constitutes it.
As we filter humanity into cyberspace, it is deconstructed, ‘techno-blended’. Any earthly indications of actuality and the embodied experience turn to simulated happenings interpreted by code, that flows though the data fields and into modem pools.
As all things, beings and happenings are being Techno-blended, in tandem so do our ideas about our nature of being, deconstructing the way in which we think about ourselves and an embodied sense of identity. The data pools are overflowing, and the code now runs through everything we know, the way we operate, new political, social, and cultural discourses flow out of cyberspace.
Techno-blending reality, my work approaches and challenges these themes, exploring Loci-disconnection and what it means to be human in a simulated space. exploring themes of censorship, anonymity, consent, identity authenticity, the hidden, tabooed and simultaneously omnipresent virtual practice'.
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.
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12:11In 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.
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5:00This 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.
