Unreading for Future Bodies (2012-present)

An expansive transmedia work for video, text, sound, exhibition and performance; this multi-year project takes on reading, reception and knowledge making as performative acts that challenge the construction of meaning in highly mediated cultural regimes, magnified by the super-saturated digisphere. Reinvention of bodies, books and screens engages viewer-participants in various registers of experience that vex and excite.

Unreading is the matrix

of ideas and tactics by which

Escapes

Derangements

and the speculative Fragmenta

are organized.

ESCAPES

(2012)

Published in 2013 in Anglistica (an online journal, University of Naples, IT), Escapes is a book of poems that emerged from a series of performance projects interrogating opera, Greek tragedy, and narrative voice. The 8 poems can be viewed from beginning to end in a fixed running time of 23:21 or as a kind of hypertext.

Derangements

(2014-present)

Slated for completion in 2020, Derangements wrestles with the Chimera figure and ‘her’ deranged boundaries, from ancient myths to concepts of hybridity in science, technology and culture.  The expedition is the organizing principle that drives the explorer to unknown places who, like the artist, invents tactics for deranging as a matter of survival.  

Fragmenta is the working title of this third and still speculative volume in the collection that will weave together multiple voices of women and girls from across time and culture whose desire for knowledge  transcends the risks in obtaining it.  Guest filmmakers and video artists will contribute material to a syncretic network structure that becomes archive, repertoire and possibility.

In the Mouth of Chimaera

a site-specific exhibition of installations, drawings, and text for Derangements Volume 2, Lukkies, Cirali, Turkey, 2014

Support

UnReading for Future Bodies

This project has received funding from the Research and Publication Fund, the Humanities Institute, Interdisciplinary Center for Performance and the Liberal Arts at Wake Forest University, and has been supported through a Visiting Artist Residency at Sarah Lawrence College and SOMOS Art House, Berlin, Germany, as well as an Artist Retreat at Lukkies, Cirali, Turkey.