Final year project
Existing in boredom [Read more]
Waiting
'waiting' is the documentation of an 80hr performance, where the performer is simply instructed to wait. The performer 'waits' for 8 consecutive hours each day, for 10 consecutive days.
Listening to white noise
This piece of work is part of a series, where I repeatedly forced myself to listen to white noise for 30mins every day for a week.
Waiting for quarantine to end
This piece of work is part of a series, where I repeatedly waited for an hour each day from when quarantine started and will continue until restrictions are lifted.
Maria Amparo Carrión Cerdá
My work is mainly conceptual and heavily influenced by philosophical theory.
Boredom determines our existence here and now, it exposes us to the physicality of time, and it is at the centre of my practice. I focus on video performances where I expose myself to boredom, waiting and anticipation. Drawing from Heidegger’s texts my pieces aim to explore ideas of meaning and the in-between.
With the objective of studying an emotion that often seems negative, I am taking a playful and humorous approach to the actions portrayed, which informed by Sisyphean absurdity, don’t focus on purpose, but rather are movement for the sake of movement. I create because I can.
Dissertation
Spain's Francoist ideal of womanhood: Representations of Spanish heroines
Final year project
Existing in boredom