Suddenly We Jumped

Suddenly We Jumped is a performance project that Antonia Wright presented in 2013 and 2014. It includes a live performance for an audience at Vizcaya Museum and Gardens in Miami, FL documented through photographs, and an additional performance for video, in which she again is launched through sheets of glass, this time nude, as it is recorded by 2 cameras.

The live performance was roughly 15 minutes long, and the two videos of the second performance are 35 seconds, and 14 seconds long.

A fusion of Futurist ideals and aesthetics inform Suddenly We Jumped. Antonia Wright focuses on misogynist views expressed by the movements leaders, transforming the female body into a mechanized weapon to be catapulted into the air, breaking through literal— and symbolically metaphoric—glass ceilings. In doing so, she raises questions about the merciless, anti-female, weaponized industrialization of Futurist world.

Presented in the performance for video of Suddenly We Jumped, Wright smashes through a sheet of glass with her nude body. The video is shot in slow motion and the use of the high frame rate enables the viewer to see every detail of her naked figure as it comes into contact and then explodes through the glass, allowing for a heightened experience of the visual metaphor.

The photographs, 2 videos, a live performance and costume will be shown together as a presentation of the project.