Casting Cycles - One
Studio Vessels
Exhibited in Sailors Home October 2018
Integrated within a different architectural context the screen claims a space for the authographic mark*, specifically the systematic rituals of studio production. These marks are carried through embodied studio rituals. Repetitious actions that result in the production of organic vessels that act as extensions or enactments of the body taking on associative properties of blood and skin. The studio actions themselves are turned performative through the presence of the lens as extension of the viewer’s gaze. The screen acts as threshold to the lens, constructed out of the same ritualized layering processes giving a material language to the video presence itself.
The translucency of the screen gives a visceral embodiment to the material language articulated in the video, the light becomes separated as if into bodily material layers of liquid and sediment.
*Here defined as relating to someone's own personal mark, as documentation of their own self possessed gesture. If something is comprised from tactile extension of one person's gesture then it becomes the autographic record of their presence. The presence of visceral identity.