Eleanor Fogg

we are all made of stars is the working title of a new performance project exploring the human body and its relationship to the material world. The project is inspired by recent movements such as The New Materialism (www.thenewmaterialism.org) which aim to change our relationship to things and objects, encouraging us to see the material world differently and develop a more responsible and sustainable politics. Jane Bennett’s book Vibrant Matter is a key source for New Materialism and an inspiration for this project. The book explores the idea of a ‘vital force’ than runs through all things – human, animal and object. we are all made of stars will use these texts as inspiration to create a collage of video fragments of natural phenomena, which will be projected onto my body. The performance will use my body as a surface, moving in a slow choreography underneath the projections. It will begin with a dark space. The images will start small, illuminating only fragments of my body, and grow in size until they reveal my whole body and begin to escape onto the walls behind, blurring the edges of my body into the space. The technique of projecting on the...

I have written features, comment, reviews and interviews for print and online, some samples are included in this portfolio.  Please paste the link into your browser to visit the page for online pieces. I have also worked as Prose Editor for a student arts magazine.