MARIE JULIA BOLLANSÉE
MARIE JULIA
BOLLANSÉE

PROSPECT

performance to the Absent Audience, 2024
1’41”

with hagstone (flynt stone with hole) from the beach in Brighton UK
dry elder sticks from the garden at Derek Jarman’s Prospect Cottage in Dungeness UK
blue tarpaulin from India
cobalt blue bodypaint
Marie Julia Bollansée, concept, performance, make-up, camera, editing
Pablo Bollansée, photograph
Derek Jarman, thanks for joy and courage you bring
Alice Fox, thanks for joining me on the pilgrimage to Prospect Cottage

Many good and protective magical powers are attributed to the ‘hagstone’, witch’s stone.
So is the elder, which preferably grows close to people’s homes.

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