AY’s vibe(work) check
*all titles are intended to be lower capital letters
*all titles are intended to be lower capital letters
indifferent, 2024
︎ performance | video, 31:08min
'indifferent' (2024) is a half-hour performance that critiques the consequences of avoiffeedance and defense mechanisms. It explores the processes of hiding, protecting, recognizing, and recovering. Set within a liminal space, the installation features emotionless lighting and metal sculptures arranged to evoke the fragmented mental state of a bedroom, blurring the boundaries between physical and psychological furniture.
The performer wears time-sensitive jewelry crafted from solid ice and imitation blood, suspended and pierced with metal chains around the neck and ears. As the ice melts, it chills the skin, scratches against it, and stains the body red, creating an evocative interplay between physical sensation and visual transformation.
︎ performance | video, 31:08min
'indifferent' (2024) is a half-hour performance that critiques the consequences of avoiffeedance and defense mechanisms. It explores the processes of hiding, protecting, recognizing, and recovering. Set within a liminal space, the installation features emotionless lighting and metal sculptures arranged to evoke the fragmented mental state of a bedroom, blurring the boundaries between physical and psychological furniture.
The performer wears time-sensitive jewelry crafted from solid ice and imitation blood, suspended and pierced with metal chains around the neck and ears. As the ice melts, it chills the skin, scratches against it, and stains the body red, creating an evocative interplay between physical sensation and visual transformation.
'indifferent' (2024) is a half-hour performance that critiques the consequences of avoiffeedance and defense mechanisms. It explores the processes of hiding, protecting, recognizing, and recovering. Set within a liminal space, the installation features emotionless lighting and metal sculptures arranged to evoke the fragmented mental state of a bedroom, blurring the boundaries between physical and psychological furniture.
The performer wears time-sensitive jewelry crafted from solid ice and imitation blood, suspended and pierced with metal chains around the neck and ears. As the ice melts, it chills the skin, scratches against it, and stains the body red, creating an evocative interplay between physical sensation and visual transformation.
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Melting ice runs thick into blood on your skin like muddy water. The body temperature drops and the pain and frozenness come: bear it, play the room, and let the metal scratches the skin.
Feel the coldness and discomforts, it was once you wanted; It wets your hair, ruins your clothes, and dyes your hands and legs red for days to be fully washed off.
Will you find comfort in danger? (?)
You thought it was at ease. You consume all that excitement it[relation/object/addiction/act/…] gives you.
Bright. Intense. Enormous.
The inner chaos grapples with that messy puddle of red liquid. You are a glittery, bloody figure now who barely recognizes themselves.
Does the pain last forever?
Will it keep dripping?
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