It’s been more than a month since I came back from Berlin’s summer residency and It wasn’t until today (and all the explorations and revisiting i did to my past work right after arriving to NY) that I’ve gained some perspective to write an updated version of my project proposal for this year.
The residency impacted me is ways never expected, bodily and mentally, opening the door to deeper questions about myself and the work I’m making. Getting to understand (after sharing a couple of process blog updates with advisers and folks) that as much as I’m interested in what’s out here in the universe I’m also piercing fibers that speak about my own identity and more specifically an identity that has been wounded: an opening that has no trace, no marks, it is invisible, heavy and painful. Yet, I see it as a gateway to potential transformation…
This box represents my identity:
“Interior black velvet cladded in mirrors, a hidden magnet and sharp needles”-FB
I had a first insight into the nature of this wound during residency. Through an exercise for metassemblage workshop and after reading the chapter: One or several wolves? From a Thousand Plateaus by Deleuze & Guattari. I ended up creating this simple composition of a pair of trousers crossing a pile of holes made on a sequence of paper and dangled to a pipe ladder along the wall of the studio right next to a erste hilfe box…
Rebecca Horn has been one of few artists recommended to me by advisers and folks for contextualization purposes. Re-searching and reading about her process and getting to understand her work has been inspiring. There is something striking about the way her objects and machines move: a humane way of building objects and machines almost with a life of their own. I feel very attracted to her kinetic work and to the balance she creates in her pieces playing between delicate innovation and the space left open for the imagination.
Practice & Re-search proposal
Through an interdisciplinary re-search including: nature, science, dreams and symbolism, I intend to enrich my own process of thinking and making while addressing the subjects of space, boundaries and identity (human body).
-The idea of transformation suggested by the kinetic-magnetic nature of my original work seems to be potent within my practice and it’s something I wish to continue investigating though the body movement experiments (I began after residency: an exploration between my body, magnets and objects in space.)
-Dreams continue to inform my practice (more often experienced as images, colors, shapes, people and motion, but now, a new element has appeared: I’m hearing sound!) for which I keep a dream journal and sometimes I even record the recollections of words and sound.
-Re-visiting my previous work by making sketches re-imagining new/ potential scenarios is another form of practice I’m also implementing.
I’m thinking that some kind of fusion needs to happen within my creative process, and wonder:
How the limits of space as boundaries inform or define identity? And If by addressing this issues integration could happen.