Transient Virility, 2014

Installation: (containing toys, furniture, television, video performance & clothing)

Dimensions variable

Transient Virility explores the relationships that are played out between four quintessential and intersecting milestones: childhood, masculinity, domesticity and sexuality through the lens of boy/man hood. The multi-discplinary project explores and expands on the complex relations of masculinity and how this dictates and is reflected within the domestic spaces where boy/man hood unfolds. By recreating a domestic setting and erasing the gender stereotypes of childhood (in particular the child’s bedroom / toys) Morris has removed gender perceived colors and affiliations leaving the interpretations mutateable.

The work is juxtaposed against a video performance playing on a white television within the installation. The video depicts a drag queen mowing the lawn, played by Morris. Morris is exploring a projected persona, in an extreme reversal to the erased bedroom. The (hyper) polar opposite, enhances the possibility for Morris to explore identity and perceived persona which may be placed upon him, only after factors have been removed as to avoid imprinted stereotypes of masculinity and gender stereotypes.