Not Something You Say
Installation, 30 mins, looped
Painted steel and Perspex structure, three channel HD video, three channel audio, variable lighting, aluminium frames, miscellaneous props
Live performance, 30 min
The performances had variable starting and end points
Video of performance here
Is This All There Is
Artist's studio desk during first year studying at the Royal Academy Schools
69 x 183 cm, 2019
Ring Ring
Digital print on curtains
340 x 240 cm
Shown as part of RA Schools Show, Royal Academy of Arts, London, June 2023
Circumbendibus Vol. 1 & 2
Live performance, 25 min
Performed at Open Studios, Royal Academy of Arts, London, November 2022
and Ohh... Youth! – Guendalina Cerruti, V.O Curations, London, November 2022
Video of performance here
'Circumbendibus' chronicles the killing off and eventual resurrection of a former alter ego, and elaborated on criticism she received and the artist's own frustration with the narcissistic character. Working from a script for the first time, Blum embodied a range of voices and roles using monologue and song. She also laments a period of renovations she underwent at her flat, and of the unfortunate encounters with ‘the BOYS’, thinking through gender stereotypes, heteronormative queerness, false binaries, and dust.
Dust which settles on literally every surface, ends up in every god damn crack, in my hair, in her lungs, all over the house, FOR EVER AND ALL ETERNITY.
A mixtape containing live recordings of songs written for ‘Circumbendibus’ was released in early 2023.
A booklet + photo flyers containing the performance script was published as an edition of 50. Email to purchase one (£25).
If You Could
Live performance, 8 min
In conjunction with the performance, the cover song 'If You Could Read My Mind' was released, originally written and performed by Gordon Lightfoot.
Performed at Premiums 3, Royal Academy of Arts, London, March 2022