Ambient electronic music (60 min 0 sec) (music composition: Anouk Verviers), PVC strip curtain, lighting gels, lights
130kg of cob (mix of clay, sand, and hay), armature (recycled poplar), cotton rope, recycled acrylic, printed socks worn by the performers
Monitors playing the documentation of the previous performance when we are not performing, speakers, cameras, wires, recycled poplar and plywood, rods, wheels
Water jug, sprayer, tarp, security blanket, aluminium, scaffolding pieces, recycled poplar and plywood, rods, wheels

Reel of video documentation (5 min) on Vimeo
Exhibition text by Yueh-Ning Lee
Exhibition floor plan & Acknowledgments

Through this ongoing performance, a feminist science-fiction experiment, we aspire to create a micro-community and momentarily replace our linear understanding of time with a cyclical one. We work together to build cob columns and then destroy them, decomposing the material to reuse it. The work explores the possibility of a self-determined rewriting of the relationship that female and non-binary bodies have with pain and exhaustion as a potential space of resistance.

PERFORMERS

Hsiao-Chien Chiu
Geraldine Hudson
Ellen King
Riley Tu
Anouk Verviers

Music composition: Anouk Verviers

ARTWORKS

Building, destroying, and rebuilding cob columns as high as our bodies (2022)
Ongoing performance and video installation. 3h per day.
Cybernetic hands playing in the mud (a community of bodies hosting migrating cells) (2022)
Video essay. Perfect loop of 4 min 45 sec

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