still, life
new work in development
still, life is a durational performance and exhibition that stages the body as a shifting sculptural instrument. Using chainmail, plexiglass, embodied sound enmeshments and other found objects, the work manifests as a kinetic sculptural practice, exposing multiple realities unfolding at once. Referencing MC Escher’s 1934 Still Life with Mirror, the work explores simultaneous, conflicting realities and the body’s relationship to decay, labor, power systems, and environment. Escher’s lithograph suggests that power is never neutral and always reflects the observer, insisting that reality is paradoxical and unstable. We ask: how do eras of collapse generate mythology? What do we fail to see, and who decides the frame?
Credits
directed by:
taylor knight | anna thompson
process collaborators:
Tariq O’Meally
creative producer:
Joshua Bristow
photos:
Ethan Stoner
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