Iamdead (1974)
Iamdead is a video performance first exhibited at The Video Show, Serpentine Gallery, London in 1975. The videotape was lost sometime after.
These photographs below were taken during the videoing of the performance, and exist as remaining documentation from this videotape. Prints derived from this video performance circulated and were showed as autonomous works.
From Shemilt’s description and these images, it is clear that the video was divided in two performative sequences: the first shot in her home garden, with Shemilt in a gown and shrouded in a veil, manipulating a Perspex human figure within an installation composed by several elements including a ladder and a stool; the second was a performance by the artist, naked, shot in the house cellar.
Iamdead
Photo Documentation of Performance for the video
©1974 Elaine Shemilt
Iamdead
Photo Documentation of Performance for the video
©1974 Elaine Shemilt
Iamdead
Photo Documentation of Performance for the video
©1974 Elaine Shemilt
Iamdead
Photo Documentation of Performance for the video
©1974 Elaine Shemilt
Iamdead
Photo Documentation of Performance for the video
©1974 Elaine Shemilt
Iamdead
Photo Documentation of Performance for the video
©1974 Elaine Shemilt
Iamdead
Photo Documentation of Performance for the video
©1974 Elaine Shemilt
Iamdead
Photo Documentation of Performance for the video
©1974 Elaine Shemilt
Iamdead
Photo Documentation of Performance for the video
©1974 Elaine Shemilt
Iamdead
Photo Documentation of Performance for the video
©1974 Elaine Shemilt
Iamdead
Photo Documentation of Performance for the video
©1974 Elaine Shemilt
Iamdead
Photo Documentation of Performance for the video
©1974 Elaine Shemilt
Iamdead
Photo Documentation of Performance for the video
©1974 Elaine Shemilt
Iamdead
Photo Documentation of Performance for the video
©1974 Elaine Shemilt
Iamdead
Photo Documentation of Performance for the video
©1974 Elaine Shemilt