Collaboration: Dorit Ehlers, Summer Lodge 2015, July 2015, Nottingham (UK)

Who am I? What colours do I have? When do I show which colour, which personal aspect? Such questions are at the core of the performance Q & I.

Q & I relates the knitted metameric artworks and the self to one-another, and thereby draws a metaphorical parallel between colour perception and perception of the self; between the self and the physical colour phenomenon known as metamerism.
Pastoureau (2014, p.9) asserts that ‘for the historian – as for the sociologist or the anthropologist – color is defined first as a social phenomenon’; ‘it is the society that “makes” the color, that gives its definitions and meaning, that constructs its codes and values, that organizes its uses and determines its stakes’.

Does this mean that society is also ‘making’ our colours and defining us?

Q & I plays with the story of our self and illuminates these social and psychological aspects; the ‘metamerising’ self is set, figuratively speaking, in the context of metameric colour perceptions.

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