School of Fine Art Sculpture & Environmental Art
Carys Bufford
I work mostly in text, presented in video work, sound and performance. I don’t want control over the text, instead I try to present it to the reader with gaps and distortions – space for a ‘radical interpretation’. I want the work to to be an invitation to allow text through the body, to be swallowed, chewed and digested. This text aspires to function both as an expression of meaning but also a material, bodily experience of letters, form and sound – that’s where the chewing comes in. The tension between an abject and dykeish sense of the body and a spiritual desire is where I’d like to place my audience, if only for a second.
Current fixations include:
Medieval homoeroticism, the Body, my body, your body, speech, breath, the M8, shopping lists found on pavements, Didcot power station cooling towers, luck, tenderness, scratch cards, crisp packets, being shrunk down and being put in a small submarine and swallowed, rural spirituality, urban spirituality, solitude, roadkill, and various lesbian poets.