Joanna Austin

Icara, Icara

Icara, Icara is a reworking of the Icarus myth from the point of view of a suburban woman. The stages of imprisonment, flight and fall are seen as a cyclical metaphor for the mechanism of her increasing self-awareness.

Within the gallery space is a darkened housing that contains a double-screen video projection and a mirror. The visitor, immersed in the darkness and disorientated, watches and participates at the same time. This dual viewpoint is echoed in the partly autobiographical video of Icara, subject and object, who sees and is seen.

ICARA

I have just finished making a short film called ICARA based on the reworking of the myth of Icarus through the eyes of a contemporary suburban woman. This is in collaboration with Roberto Filoseta, Suzanne Page and Kate Wiggs and has been shot on location at Benington Lordship and St Albans.

Practice-based research MA at University of Hertfordshire

The Kinaesthetic Experience of Video installation
(Nov 2009- Feb 2012)
I am researching how disorientation and movement can be used to affect the audience's experience of a video installation.