What are we building
What have we built
Have we built
We built on ground that keeps moving
On land that is not ours

We carry your grief

Maybe you
Maybe you’ve built
Maybe you is more comfortable then we

But we need
We need we
What can you build on land that keeps moving

Exhaust our bodies
Purge your humiliations from our muscles

Share exhaustion
Connect sufferings
Feel dizzy
So much needs to be untied still

The grief of what we thought we had built

Throw heavy things
Carry heavy
Compress
Replace narratives by muscle memory

Reach exhaustion
Feel lighter
We can care
for our exhausted bodies
Learn to care
Learn to heal

Care for other exhausted bodies
Heal humiliations
Heal narratives
Try to heal
Exhaust and then maybe grieve
Exhaust and then maybe heal

(transcript of video narration, text by Anouk Verviers)

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CREDITS

Performer, narration, sound, editing, camera: Anouk Verviers
Handheld camera shots: Hsiao-Chien Chiu

RELATED PROJECT

See Baratter les sols pierreux (Churning the rocky soils)

EXHIBITIONS

See Goldsmiths MFA Interim Show (2022) Goldsmiths à Londres UK

RELATED ARTWORKS

See Replace narratives by muscle memory
See So much needs to be untied still (we carry your grief)
See Reproduction of a part of the Canadian pavilion at the colonial exhibition of 1886 in London

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