12.08.2024
Fletcher, RISD
2 hours
I use a camera to film myself reading a text this morning.
I read the same text in the place you are in.
I follow the reading pace in the film I took of myself.
I am not allowed to make mouth sounds.
I will read the changing of moon phase on December 8, 2001 to 2024.
Every 29.5 minutes, I will stop reading to rest.
If I stop at Spring Tide, I stretch out.
If I stop at Neap Tide, I curl up.
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A complete lunar cycle takes approximately 29.5 days.
The moon moves 1 degree every two hours.
Spring Tide occurs during the full and new moon phase.
Neap Tide occurs during the first and quarters of the moon phase.
two bodies
video camera
mirror
video projection
speaker
White pedestal
The body on-site will try to follow the video (or not) but without making any sound, only mouth movements. Every 29.5 minutes, it will stop reading and take a rest, as the video will continuously play on the wall. The overall duration is decided by the exact exhibition time. Viewers are free to browse my reading text.
The very first question I am trying to ask the viewer is: As what you see in front of you, which body is mine? Based on the concept of Peripersonal Space (PPS), I am going to find the clues of the dynamic that exists within the body, sensory, and the specific space & time, as well as how spatial continuity would affect our sense of the external world.
Living within a female body in a multidimensional world, to what degree, her body could disappear and become a referent? When performative language is mute, what you hear and see here, is the constative one that is speaking in silence. The space, the cosmos, is witnessing.
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