When researching into ritual within performance I came across Ana Mandieta, her work usually forms in an autobiographical nature to which she focuses on identity in a cultural origin. There is an interesting feel to observing a ritual permitting the viewer into a sacred ceremony usually unseen unless participating. This idea of sacred rituals can be appropriated to the daily ritual of the morning schedule. To which as women we awaken and do our hair and makeup (a creation of identity) within the comfort of our homes or rooms. Vibrate allows a insight into the development of medias influence on identity and its progression into what could be deemed as a sacred ritual of women.
Manchester, E. (2008) ‘Marxism and Art: Beware of the Fascist Feminist’[online]. London: Tate. Available from: http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/wilke-marxism-and-art-beware-of-fascist-feminism-p79357/text-summary (accessed on 1st June 2014)
Artist As Curator 