An aundio-visual performative meditation, deep listening, traveling and shifting bodily materiality through 3 states/realms: -inner-, -near- and -outer-. The ‘Sub’ is a realm of the subsurface world in a womb-like state, something unrevealed but connected to the foundational rhythm of life. The ‘Sur’ is a realm that is revealed, something that has appeared as a sur-real world. A sense of close touch and nostalgia, bridging consciousness with collective empathy. Aimed to allow the unconscious mind to express itself, often resulting in the depiction of illogical or dreamlike scenes and ideas. Previously contradictory conditions of dream and reality resolve into an absolute reality, a super-reality, or surreality. The ‘Face’ is a realm beyond, which we are facing, outside the space, an imaginative extended world. Another point of transition from inside to outside, from unrevealed to revealed. When you can sense the very end of the skin, level of energy and vibrations. The eternal without shell that enters the light.
The project was developed within the Time Based mentorship program under the guidance of Julia Santoli in Kyiv.
Music for this performance collages mystic electronic drones, dreamy vocal tones, sensual double bass and piano sounds, subtle minimal electronic microsound, clicks and cuts movement of the time and ambient field recordings of nature and everyday life that evoke imaginary space to focus on how we hear, what we hear and how we feel about it. Compositional concepts use the principles of active listening, imaginative thinking, cluster sounding, moving from chaos to structure.
In the visual art installation/scenography through 3D scanning, anatomical form dissolves into fluid, porous digital textures. In preparing these visuals, people had to freeze to be scanned. It was a moment of awareness of the body as it is. This visual is like an archive. In a sensorial way documenting nudity.
This project extends into an accompanying zine — a collection of conversations held during the photogrammetry of bodies. The texts form a collective sensory archive — fragments of experiences, affects, and self-observations.