Performance-Exhibition-Residency (for shutdown campus)

This occupation resulted in a series of performances for divers types of cameras (GoPro, Handycam, cellphone, computer, etc.). Process based photographies where collected in an album posted to the Warren G Flowers's Facebook Page and all video footage was recorded over the duration of the residency, filmed in private, shown on a TV monitor placed in the gallery's exterior display case, shown independently online or included into a Facebook Livestream performance - a final public roaming (recorded on March 28 at 5:33 PM). Selected captions are presently archived to the gallery's website (links bellow). Performance workshops and artist talks where led via Zoom, for the absent students of the art department.

Duration : 1 month

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Initial project statement

« I’ve always used the architecture of places as starting points, my body moving according to space and the situation/ambiance imposed or created. Mainly working and performing from home, my body/image work often seeks to reproduce or reveal some sort of uncomfortable intimacy. Considering the context of this residency at an educational institution during this sequestered pandemic era we inhabit, I’m interested in the idea of imposing a sort of domesticity that would feel like a space of limbo, a non-space with non-time, reflected in the extensive use of beige in the gallery.

With this project, I would like to create a series of unfolding actions and images that would function through indirect or subjective viewing of the body in action. Simultaneously, I envision the space as a sort of canvas that will bear witness to an inner chaos or failure to resolve. The structure, actual actions and mechanism (camera work, live feed, role of documentation) will be revealed gradually through self-isolation within the space.

Echo Figures for Pending Spaces: Occupations for Camera is an experiment, an abstract extension of my current drawings with makeup on magazine pages, as well as several other threads through my practice over the years. »

Final project included :

Evolving installation
Facebook Album
Selected Vidéos
Livestream performance

Images : NGF