The Belgrade Fair in Serbia came alive last weekend, October 12 to 13 as artists were painting models for a competition named the Bodyart Festival Serbia. The festival was organized by Radmila Radman with the support of Alex Barendregt of the World Bodypainting Association. Lynn Schockmel was part of the competitors and was successful: She made 2nd place at the Body Painting Awards Saturday October 12 and won the Face Painting Awards on Sunday October 13. 2nd place at the Body Painting Competition:Theme of the Body Painting Awards: “Inner Fears” Lynn painted her model Marina, together with her assistant Marco as a “Entomophobia warrior” with jewel beetle armor elements to represent the fight against insect fear. Story: There was once a girl living with “entomophobia”, the fear of insects. She endeavored to avoid all encounters and situations where any insect could possibly be. The visual triggers of multiple appendages, eyes, skin textures brought on panic and hysteria anytime she met one of these creepy crawlies. She felt cornered, unsafe and unclean. Her personal space ever more constricted with their ever-increasing numbers and unending spread. Her life was forever being impacted by her fear, restricting her movements and driving her away from the world around her. She knew it was irrational, of course it was, but she couldn’t control her reactions, they owned her. Finally, a bit like a cocooning caterpillar preparing for change, she finally chose to fight against it and conquer her emotions. She studied them, watched them, learnt about them and discovered beauty that she hadn’t previously seen or considered: Jeweled beetles. They were beautiful, the iridescent sparkling colors, all colors of the spectrum and harmless in nature. Overtime, she managed to get closer to those beetles and slowly turned her fears, into strengths. But her battle wasn’t over yet…. Some pictures of the work (photos by Marco Mazzini): Winner at the Face Painting Competition:Theme of the Face Painting Awards: “Beings from the Future” Lynn painted the face of her model Jana as a “Human Laboratory”. The first impression was meant to look like a cyborg skull face, but when you look closer other elements were showing up: A kneeling cyborg (on the nose) with wings (on the eyebrows) exerting control over artificial pregnancy (embryos on the cheeks) and grown-ups (on the lips/teeth) who are still connected to the machine. The feet of the cyborg look like the skulls nostrils. A human who didn't had the perfect DNA is burning in a capsule on the model's forehead. Story: We live in an era of extinction. Capital flows, industrial infrastructures, molecules, affects, techno-scientific enterprises with robots, androids and hybrids who are engendering human life, while unraveling ecological communities and multi species worlds. In this speculative future motherhood, the work of insemination, pregnancy, delivery, and care of the newborn is now being radically transformed by new techno-scientific prosthetics, artificial wombs and contractual arrangements. Contemporary biotechnologies are modifying and subverting reproductive conventions, Gene editing tools, synthetic biology, digital algorithms, and sperm banks are remaking germ plasma and reconfiguring horizons of desire and care for the human species. Some pictures of the work (photos by Marco Mazzini):
1 Comment
5/11/2019 09:45:52
I would love to stay up to date with your blog!
Reply
Leave a Reply. |
Blog about body art projects, publications, features, awards & news.
AuthorLynn Schockmel: Categories
All
Archives
October 2019
|