LEAVING THE SHELTER, performance, exposition
it is a conceptual exploration of transitioning the psychic experience of belonging, home, isolation. focus on the process instead of immobile objects and on the porous image of the body in time and space. I am trying to achieve it through motion and tenuous stillness captured as the main components. this very slow and physically grueling meditative athletic activation is [my] first attempt at using [my own] body as a field and motive. the current multi-media work is composed of haptic and olfactory incidents with expanding collaborative layers of sonic and visual input of—punk rock by fleshen fella, [australia/england], and polaroid collage of ukrainian war period by veronika mol [kyiv, ukraine]—the interaction between which was exercised in the performance format
notes on incident #1 body—activation is highly personal] stillness makes immaterial time textural] you watching the process instead of object] pain in bones and flesh are conceptualized] physicality of what is happening in between] beyond context] connecting us to commonality of] fear, panic, desire of freedom] body as restriction] re-become] speechlessness] dragging] falling] breathing into] pierce] low to the ground] hide] wait]
notes on incident #2 place—where you are now—where you want to be] impermanence of memory layers] artifacts are fragmentary] incompleteness] no longer protected by architecture] awakened in grief] playscape] a permanent sensitivity] inaccessible] thinking with matter] eluding of boundaries] not conclusive] temenos] avoid the word home]
performance sound:
fleshen fella FMR008 [glenrowan, australia}
all tied up 02:43
desperation 01:28
psyche 01:35
imonia blues 01:49
untitled 02:50
[beyond inner ruins and anxiety
[while working on this piece
[dedicated to my brother
his fate was unknown
The artwork was developed and presented within the residence in Stove Work, Chattanooga, TN in August 2022.