HW # 3: Grace Won-Janine Antonio ("Touch")

Grace Won :Janine Antonio "Touch" Janine Antonio’s Touch that was completed in 2002 is one of her most famous performance pieces that she created. She uses her body as her main component and combines dance in her work. "Touch" explores the ideas of balance, desire, and the horizon. In this work, Antonio take lessons in rope walking because she wanted to know what it would be like to actually walk on the rope she was making. During her training, she finds how that she was not becoming more balanced. Rather, she became more comfortable with being out of balance. In her real performance piece, she goes to her hometown in the Bahamas and sets up a wire that rest above the water and walks through. From this performance work, Antonio notices how people are always trying to have perfect balance in their lives. However, this idea of perfection is impossible. Walking on a wire with perfect balance is not possible either. Additionally reaching the horizon is not possible. She believes that people should be comfortable with the imbalance and imperfections in their lives. here is the link