underway: en cours — Video and Ephemera

THE GLITCH in the videos intentionally explores a logic of delay, In-zwischen (in-between time), and untimeliness. For Nietzche, an untimely event defies all expectations and predetermined patterns of history. Time is not simply used up as it occurs - it does not fall back into the past, spent and wasted; neither is it swept up and appropriated…Untimeliness is not subsumed within historical time - nor does it disappear from it (Nietzche, Untimely Meditations).

Kandinsky Library, MNAM / CCI, Center Pompidou - Dist. RMN-Grand Palais, Atelier performance, cycle d'enseignement par Gina Pane au Centre Pompidou, salle cinéma (24 novembre 1978 - 9 février 1979) : prises de vues. Photographer: Jacques Faujour

day 1

April 18, 2018: 22h – 22h39

chalking

archival photo #555 from workshop 8

found materials: sticks of white chalk

I approach the white “painter’s wall” in the atelier holding white chalk in both hands

I inscribe the wall with Pane’s sentence: “le language du corps est le savoir de l’ignorance du savoir”

I let the body lead the direction of this language

day 3

April 23, 2018: 21h53-22h42

a line

archival photo #117 from workshop 4

found materials: sticks of white chalk

I unbutton my shirt to expose my torso

I place the chalk at my sternum

I use pressure, gravity, and breath to draw a line on/in the flesh repeatedly from sternum to belly

day 25

June 17, 2018: 21h14-21h48

laugh

found materials: plastic and cloth storage bag, large piece of MDF, white and green tiles, string, chicken wire, sepia ink, white plastic bag

I build a new space/installation with the materials

I fill the plastic bag with sepia ink and suspend it from the a-frame

I tape the storage bag to the MDF (floor) and the wall, closing all of its edges except one side

I slide my face and upper body under the storage bag, my head on the tiles

I laugh

day 12

May 24, 2018: 17h-1730

cocoon

archival photo 627 in workshop 8

found materials: gray “dropcloth”

I lay on my stomach on the balcony where the previous score “ended”

I slowly roll inside the studio onto the gray dropcloth

As I roll onto the dropcloth I wrap it around me in a kind of cocoon

The dropcloth is smaller than my body, and I maneuver in ways to cover the entire body

I am mostly still but also move to discover new positions or to access a different pocket of air

I roll out of the cocoon and hold the dropcloth with my mouth by breathing

When it falls I stop

day 13

May 26, 2018: 14h13-15h12

bind

archival photo 130 from workshop 4

found materials: white string

I weave the white string into the suspended frame with black string and also around nails found in the wall

I commit to performing in a kneeling position for the duration

I wrap my face and hands with the string, covering my eyes fully so that I cannot see, binding my fingers, and eventually binding my wrists together behind my back

The wrapping causes tension between my body and the frame which moves both in opposing, constricting, and precarious ways

day 11

May 23, 2018: 15h19-16h06

thresholds

archival photo #257 in workshop 5

found materials: nothing new added but the balcony is covered in pigeon droppings and mulch which marks my clothes, face, and neck

I wear my blouse unbuttoned and backwards to expose my back and shoulders

I lay on my stomach on the ledge of the balcony

I am mostly still but adjust my head, neck, torso, and legs using slow subtle movements

day 20

June 7, 2018: 15h11-15h58

learn to walk

archival photo 595 from workshop 8

found materials: white towel, thin foam wrapping paper, sellotape, black ink, rubber trashbin

I lay the towel where the Styrofoam was

I tape the foam wrapping paper to the floor over the towel

I pour black ink in the rubber trashbin

I ink my hands and feet by placing them in the trashbin

I confine myself to the space of the foam wrapping paper

I learn to walk