“Valid until…” explores how MSDs are experienced by the female practitionerand how the female body is assembled on screen. The question that I try toanswer in response to above discussed premises is what can be discovered anddiscussed about assembling of our body through screen technology as part of theartistic process? The body we have is an assemblage of forces, or flows,intentions and emotions that solidify in space, and strengthen in time, withinor between what we call object/subject body or an “individual” self. Thisintensive and dynamic entity does not coincide with the deep inventory of whatconstitutes us from inside, nor is it merely the unfolding of genetic data andinformation of the body as an object. It is rather a quantity of forces that arestable enough to sustain and to undergo constant, though, non-destructive,fluxes of transformation.This transformation is what I consider to be essential for the artisticprocess, as it becomes a link between reason and the imagination, theory andpractice, an instrument of production of the new.
Medium: Photocopy; Video 0'15''
Title: Under the sun
Description: Border sites (border controls, detentioncamps etc.) radically expose the body and create extreme conditions ofseparation between feeling and action. This heightened stasis of separation was used asa provocation. Byunrevealing and talking about the (in)visible borders, Iam not only interested in how our body is being perceived as different, but howthrough technology our body encounters the screen as division in our everydaylife.
What was once a passport is now but a fragile trace of a pastwith which we can never fully reconnect. To evoke this liminal space, I am layering the official paper with parts of my body, so that traces of lived histories mingledacross time and space on this newly created co-inhabited ground that Ettinger calls borderspace.
Title: Under the sun
Description: Border sites (border controls, detentioncamps etc.) radically expose the body and create extreme conditions ofseparation between feeling and action. This heightened stasis of separation was used asa provocation. Byunrevealing and talking about the (in)visible borders, Iam not only interested in how our body is being perceived as different, but howthrough technology our body encounters the screen as division in our everydaylife.
What was once a passport is now but a fragile trace of a pastwith which we can never fully reconnect. To evoke this liminal space, I am layering the official paper with parts of my body, so that traces of lived histories mingledacross time and space on this newly created co-inhabited ground that Ettinger calls borderspace.
Medium: Video 0'19''
Title: Me and You
Description: This video was created while reflexing on a variety of pasts (personal and socio-cultural) that inform our living and creating with screen technologies. While concentrating on the process, I became particularly interested in how mobile imaging with a camera phone is informed by an autobiographical impulse and, thereby belongs to a long tradition of first-person forms of documentation. In this work, the body, according to the processual approach, is not taken for granted as a fixed entity but is instead seen as having a plasticity or malleability which means that it can take different forms and shapes at different times, and so also have a geography.
Title: Me and You
Description: This video was created while reflexing on a variety of pasts (personal and socio-cultural) that inform our living and creating with screen technologies. While concentrating on the process, I became particularly interested in how mobile imaging with a camera phone is informed by an autobiographical impulse and, thereby belongs to a long tradition of first-person forms of documentation. In this work, the body, according to the processual approach, is not taken for granted as a fixed entity but is instead seen as having a plasticity or malleability which means that it can take different forms and shapes at different times, and so also have a geography.
Medium: Video 0'47''
Title: Lost
Description: During my first three years in Northampton and the UK, I walked in the town in order to view it more closely. I was looking to acquaint myself with the cultural sprawl via a corporeal practice that allowed me to experience the foreign space in a more intimate way. The geographic terrain of Northampton felt “foreign” to me because its shape and scope were unfamiliar and navigating or getting a sense of either posed a challenge beyond what I had expected. My need to walk in Northampton arose not only in order to map out the town. It was a physical and neurological need to get out of my own feeling as a foreigner.
Title: Lost
Description: During my first three years in Northampton and the UK, I walked in the town in order to view it more closely. I was looking to acquaint myself with the cultural sprawl via a corporeal practice that allowed me to experience the foreign space in a more intimate way. The geographic terrain of Northampton felt “foreign” to me because its shape and scope were unfamiliar and navigating or getting a sense of either posed a challenge beyond what I had expected. My need to walk in Northampton arose not only in order to map out the town. It was a physical and neurological need to get out of my own feeling as a foreigner.
