- Video art → performance/appropriation
- Broadly speaking my idea is to set up a number of statues/sculptures, lights, and built skateable terrain in the Williams Visual Arts Building and then interact with all of it while I skateboard. I want the performance to be more than just a spectacle in which I am seen skateboarding around interesting and unusual terrain, rather I would like to demonstrate skating as an art form. I want the audience to see balance and understand the connection between me, my board, and my surrounding environment. I am absolutely not the first person to try and skate as an artistic performance, nor is my plan to expose balance and draw attention to the board/body relationship original. So, I feel I ought to add in some crucially influential footage of various skaters who have tried to accomplish the same sort of thing through performance skating. Mark Gonzalez is probably the most notable figure in this regard. Mark is one of the most influential skaters of all time, a pioneer in street skating, and a highly talented artist dealing mostly in larger scale installations. In the 90s Mark did a number of performance art shows in museums across Europe. In a music video for the song West Coast by Coconut Records, Mark is filmed during one of his museum performances. He is seen skating all over a modern museum in Germany, skating through and around different modern looking installations. Mark skates in such a way as to demonstrate his connection with his board and his center of gravity rather than performing various difficult tricks in the style of a traditional skateboard edit.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mTzEp4CeWT8 (West Coast, By Coconut Records)