Jumpsuits & Teleporters

Whitney Dail was born in Alexandria, VA to a Naval aviator and an artist-entrepreneur, and was raised in Annapolis, MD. For five years, Whitney worked as a graphic designer in the comic book industry but returned to school in 2009 to pursue a better-suited Master's degree in Arts Administration. She is currently in the process of writing and researching her thesis on expanding art, science, and technology interactions in U.S. cultural institutions.

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    I am imagining myself in Marina Abramovic’s Shoes for Departure. In an interview, the artist explains: I decided to build these transitory objects. I don’t call them sculptures. They’re objects that the public can perform, like props. When they trigger their own experience, the object can be removed. It is not something that should be permanent. People ask me, Can we really walk on a ladder with knives? Of course we can. It depends on our state of consciousness. If you put this ladder with knives in front of a shaman in Brazil, he will walk on it. It’s our problem that we can’t. In a way, it’s to remind you that you can push your limits. Then I have crystal shoes. I have instructions for the public to take off your shoes and, with naked feet, put on the two crystal shoes, close your eyes, don’t move, and make your departure. I’m talking about a mental, not physical, departure. So the public can enter certain states of mind helped by the material itself. Material is very important for me. I use crystals, human hair, copper, iron. The materials already have a certain energy. 1 1. Janet A. Kaplan, “Deeper and Deeper: Interview with Marina Abramovic,” Art Journal 58, no. 2 (Summer 1999): 8-9.

    I am imagining myself in Marina Abramovic’s Shoes for Departure.



    In an interview, the artist explains:

    I decided to build these transitory objects. I don’t call them sculptures. They’re objects that the public can perform, like props. When they trigger their own experience, the object can be removed. It is not something that should be permanent. People ask me, Can we really walk on a ladder with knives? Of course we can. It depends on our state of consciousness. If you put this ladder with knives in front of a shaman in Brazil, he will walk on it. It’s our problem that we can’t. In a way, it’s to remind you that you can push your limits. Then I have crystal shoes. I have instructions for the public to take off your shoes and, with naked feet, put on the two crystal shoes, close your eyes, don’t move, and make your departure. I’m talking about a mental, not physical, departure. So the public can enter certain states of mind helped by the material itself. Material is very important for me. I use crystals, human hair, copper, iron. The materials already have a certain energy. 1



    1. Janet A. Kaplan, “Deeper and Deeper: Interview with Marina Abramovic,” Art Journal 58, no. 2 (Summer 1999): 8-9.

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