Washing my hair in space

RE-FOLEY, RE-DIRECT, RE-PERFORM

A sound-led performance that turns a NASA outreach film into an ASMR video. In the original film astronaut Karen Nyberg demonstrates how to wash her hair in zero gravity conditions on board the International Space Station. In a reinterpretation of the NASA film, artist Julie Rose Bower creates Foley sound in which the sound of a hairdryer becomes the sound of the rocket and adds a whisper track that adds to the uncanny nature of the film’s concept.

This work asks questions about the most effective ways to femme technologised space, whether self-care can be a radical act and if ASMR can be positioned as an aural equivalent of Laura Mulvey’s reflexive feminist performance concept of “to-be-looked-at-ness”.

Performances:

Chez Anne Pigalle: Dublin Castle, Camden

SONIC BODIES: VFD, Dalston

Sound::Gender::Feminism::Activism conference by Centre for Research into Sound Art Practice (CRiSAP), Untitled, Tokyo

Listen to the resoundtracked video here: https://vimeo.com/343025343