Mental and physical states of Vulnerability.

Vulnerability occurs in different states from physical to mental vulnerability, but which is worse? You can make yourself up with makeup and clothes to mask your physical self up, but how can you hide the mental state of vulnerability. Similarly, mental vulnerability can kick start physical vulnerability, being the age i am my insecurities and what makes me feel vulnerable is definitely body and sex orientated as i feel there is pressure for 18-25 year in that area. Similarly, if i think i don’t like myself and with how i look that will kick start the physical vulnerability and make me want to hide that away or change it.Exploring the mental side of vulnerability we went and asked the public to write down questions that would make them feel vulnerable if they where to answer them. Examples of the questions that where collected where:

Have you ever been bullied?

What would you say to someone you have lost?

What’s your favorite sexual position?

How much do you weigh/what close size are you?

Many of these questions where asked by 18-25 year old students which caused the theme to by body and sex orientated. Would the questions be different if we asked a different people that where of a different age? we did ask a few older people which brought questions which where memory orientated. This would’ve changed the piece completely not necessarily in a bad way.

Putting these questions on film to be projected in performance is to inform the audience our own feelings towards the subjects raised, therefore showing them our mental vulnerable state. Having the film Projecting in the space left the audience not being able to escape it unless they left the room, and while that goes on we show our physical vulnerability by stripping our physical self back by taking clothes off. The audience couldn’t escape this unless they left the room.

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