BUBBLES - 2020
Four 4k Videos edited onto one screen. 1 min 11 Sec. Camera - Hannah Suharto. Model - Hat Fidkin. Please use headphones. ~ This work explores the suffocating aspect of confinement and 'social bubbles' created by lockdown laws.
Jocelyn Brett is a multimedia artist working in research, writing, video, sound, and performance. Their research based-practice is interdisciplinary; drawing on anthropological and philosophical theories. Focused on the human reaction to the digital Anthropocene, indicating the cognitive dissonance presented from a world that is simultaneously ‘connected’ yet ever more polarized. Jocelyn’s work explores the limits of discomfort and themes of bodily autonomy on a micro and macro scale.
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I am ambitious to further my interdisciplinary research and artistic practice; cross-pollinating ideas from multitudes of disciplines. I intend to investigate creativity and social/personal wellbeing.
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Selected for the Deans list
Selected with Natasha Watson for the Street Corner Reading Rooms – Bristol
Shortlisted for Paedogenic project funding at UWE
Group Exhibition, Earth Bodies (postponed due to Covid) Awarded as winners of exhibition proposal contest
Awarded a high first in Independent Research Project
Presented at 2021 Undergraduate Research Symposium
jocelyn.brett@googlemail.com www.jocelynbrett.com →
Four 4k Videos edited onto one screen. 1 min 11 Sec. Camera - Hannah Suharto. Model - Hat Fidkin. Please use headphones. ~ This work explores the suffocating aspect of confinement and 'social bubbles' created by lockdown laws.
4k Video. 1 min 12 Sec. Camera - Hannah Suharto Please use headphones. ~ This work examines the discomfort of taboo's such as bodily fluid and pornographic sexual tension exacerbated by isolation.
Digital Film. 1 min 43 sec. Please use headphones. ~ This work examines the mania of being claustrophobic in ones body and experience. The quote used for the audio is from 'I LOVE DICK' by Chris Kraus.
Digital Film. 4 min 2 sec. Please use headphones. ~ This work examines the comforting aspect of claustrophobia. The innocent appeal of being wholly surrounded and safe, contrasting with the discomfort and fear that comes with constraint and control.
My Independent Research Project - An exploration into how distorted time perception and memory during lockdown may shape our society Post-Covid. This article is one of my most important works, I aim to continue this research.
Artistic and analytical writing exploring the themes of isolation, confinement, taboo and sexual tension.