BUILDING, DESTROYING, AND REBUILDING COB COLUMNS AS HIGH AS OUR BODIES
2023
18h performance over 6 days
video installation
Feminist science fiction experiment
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
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.
CREDITS
Performers: Hsiao-Chien Chiu, Geraldine Hudson, Ellen King, Riley Tu, Anouk Verviers
Music composition: Anouk Verviers
EXHIBITIONS
See Goldsmiths MFA Degree Show (2023) Goldsmiths in London UK
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