Florence Logan
Medusa-Vitiare
Medusa-Vitiare was a digital installation which Florence led and created with 8 international artists (Yoanna Bolzli, Nina Gaillard, Katie Grenville, Margarita Beloglazova, Carly Altberg, Gioia De Martino, Emily Berry and Eloi Petillon), ranging from sound artists, singers, film makers, dancers and prop makers.
It was produced by Gioia De Martino with Tablespoon Theatre Company as part of their POTLUCK festival (2021). Certain pieces were presented in the Goethe-Institut Glasgow (2023) and at the Drygate Brewery with the Bold Collective (2021).
The digital installation explored stories of the bodies of rape and sexual assault through the myths and symbols of Medusa. It was made with the hope to unravel then purposefully and caringly re-tangle the processes of fragmenting and flattening that victims of SA an rape are often subjected to. This work was shaped and inspired by the conventions of mythology (ex: a body, a name representing a value, a concept) - researching the risks of mythicization (the loss of subtleties and details), the unreliability of truth and the impossible quest for objectivity.
There were 30 short videos in total, ranging from 5secs to 5mins. By using recurring motifs and techniques of layering/overlapping in sound, image and text, the aim was to create an intricate and intimate patchwork, with the seams and stitches on show.
The latin verb vitiare:
To injure, to spoil, to taint, to corrupt, to damage, to violate sexually.
We don’t just want one truth. We want all of them
how many snakes do you have?
I can count them for you
if you like. I can care for them, moisturize their scales and stretch out their tongues.
you look so sad, and monstrous too.
