Georges Floyd Murder
Animation by Filipa Castro Animation, CSM.
ATTORNEY GENERAL GEORGES FLOYD MURDER
May 2o20
Stefan Lin, PDP second year made this headpiece. We were inspired by Laetitia Ky, instagram artist using her hair to express political views.
We started with a decathlon hoop and wrapped it with hair. Then, Stefan made a fist in wire and wrapped it with locks. The structure is metal and we added bobbypins for stability.The pearls represent blood, we thought that if the headpiece didn’t have a negative connotation such as bleeding and a direct association to murder. It could be wrongly interpreted, as if we were critisizing the movement BLM, obviously good, as opposed to the murder, horrible.
Klinta is a CSM, ceramic 2nd year student, we have collaborated together in making the teapot to represent George Floyd Murder and B.L.M.
Here are some explorations, gunshots through the vessel, a fist, we also experimented with dyed red water coming out of the cracks.
Melina, last minute backup performer had a smaller head than Eliza , so the headpiece was a bit unstable and tipping forward... Although at first distressed by the fact that there was a change, I realised the acting background of Melina was helpful and perhaps more so than the dancing background of Eliza. Furethermore we figured that having a white performer to portray the role of the murder actually made more sense.