In The Moment of Doing. Battersea, Testbed 1, 33 Parkgate Road,  SW11 4NP, London, UK

Womb || 2015

Revolve. Performance Art Days
Uppsala Konstmuseum, Drottning Christinas väg 1E, 752 37 Uppsala, SE

Performance / Action

The Womb unfolds through a sequence of bodily actions across indoor and outdoor spaces. I begin by lying in a womb of dirt. I stand up, slip, fall, and rise again. I lie on a bridge, balancing until the body inevitably gives way. I then enter the gallery and place my body between the wall and a column, remaining still.

The work explores states of containment, exposure, balance, and collapse — moving between grounded, unstable, and suspended conditions of the body within space.

“Would really nothing living subsist? For my part, I believe that this is precisely where we should see the world come alive and, independent of any instrument, of any physical properties, fill up with penetrating deep waves which, although not sonorous in the sensory meaning of the word, are not for this reason less harmonious, resonant, melodic, and capable of determining the whole tonality of life.

This life itself reverberates to the most profound depths of its being through contact with these waves, which are at once sonorous and silent. Here, ‘fill-up’ and ‘plenitude’ take on a completely different meaning. It is not a material object that fills another by adopting the form imposed upon it; rather, it is the dynamism of sonorous life itself which engulfs and appropriates everything in its path, filling a slice of space — or rather, a slice of the world — making it reverberate and breathing into it its own life.

This ‘slice’ of the world should not be understood in a geometrical sense. It is not a matter of dividing the world into sonorous spheres, nor of tracing the limits of waves emanating from a sensory source. Rather, spaces such as a sealed vase or a forest become self-enclosed microcosms precisely because they are filled with sound.”