The Agency of the Orphan

Supports & Structures

(AS THE REPRESENTATION OF NOT HAVING)
 
Nature of Exercise:
A Precarious Balance: support as a barometer for what is NOT the body of the child
 

Actors & Materials:

• clay
• teetering, wobbling, falling, injuring, balance

Step by Step Instructions:
Version A

1. Assemble an object that requires a support and cannot balance on its own.
2. Before it hardens, remove the supporting structing allowing the object to fall FAR and damage itself
   now, either:
   Try to reconstitute the wounded object to another support of some kind
   or
   Attempt to reposition the wounded object by finding its own point of balance separate from a support structure

Version B

1. Construct an object out of one lightweight material that can easily self support
2. Recast it in a material in which the weight distributes less evenly..
3. How will it stand now?