Call On Me Me Me (2024)
Three-channel video installation, hand-processed 16mm video transfer and digital video, black and white, 3:4, four-channel audio. 20-60 minutes evolving loop.
Three generations of fathers and s*ns commence on a project to alchemize the masculine relationships that link them across time and culture. Through a series of overlapping audio interviews, the artist and their father dissolve the boundaries that have separated their experiences as mxn, creating space for new interpretations of their genders, histories, and bodies.
Three films play throughout the space. Separated and projected on suspended screens, each film depicts a surreal, interconnected choreography performed by the artist as they attempt to embody their ancestors' and their own past, guided by archival family materials and an inherited transcendental impulse. Shot initially on a combination of 16mm film and digital formats, the videos run off live performance software to create a work that will never repeat itself, a shifting concatenation that is as dynamic as the bodies and relationships it contains.
Three-channel video installation, hand-processed 16mm video transfer and digital video, black and white, 3:4, four-channel audio. 20-60 minutes evolving loop.
Three generations of fathers and s*ns commence on a project to alchemize the masculine relationships that link them across time and culture. Through a series of overlapping audio interviews, the artist and their father dissolve the boundaries that have separated their experiences as mxn, creating space for new interpretations of their genders, histories, and bodies.
Three films play throughout the space. Separated and projected on suspended screens, each film depicts a surreal, interconnected choreography performed by the artist as they attempt to embody their ancestors' and their own past, guided by archival family materials and an inherited transcendental impulse. Shot initially on a combination of 16mm film and digital formats, the videos run off live performance software to create a work that will never repeat itself, a shifting concatenation that is as dynamic as the bodies and relationships it contains.
You are a moving image and performance artist.
You play with processes of translation between virtual and real spaces.
You work with embodiment, spatialization, and perceptual distortion to examine the tragi-comic-karmic-horror results.
Your practice is influenced in equal parts by Y2K gamer culture, queerness, depth psychology, and Buddhist philosophy.
You have displayed your work internationally.
Film festivals, Hollywood theatres, living rooms, and concrete performance spaces in Berlin have all served as stages.
@indexthumb
indexthumb.com
You play with processes of translation between virtual and real spaces.
You work with embodiment, spatialization, and perceptual distortion to examine the tragi-comic-karmic-horror results.
Your practice is influenced in equal parts by Y2K gamer culture, queerness, depth psychology, and Buddhist philosophy.
You have displayed your work internationally.
Film festivals, Hollywood theatres, living rooms, and concrete performance spaces in Berlin have all served as stages.
@indexthumb
indexthumb.com
12 attempts to collapse my infinity (2024) indexthumb
12 attempts to collapse my infinity (2024)
rc prints, lace gloves, single-channel digital video on custom camera monitor, b&w, sound on speakers. 21m looped.
Set me freeee
said the camera or whatever
was inside
it pointed as it was
at the shutter or backdrop or
blank.
*click*
twelve times it was this
rotated round its axis each time
the invisible universe sucked
out by a crushed rubber ball breathing
open the sky like a birthday gorl.
*set me free*
and the blower
a nude (pretty)
contorted in hope
was fixed, later to lie
shed on the floor in glossy pulp
amongst lace and crops
and other such suggestions.
*click*
12 attempts to collapse my infinity immerses viewers within a self-portrait studio shoot of the artist. Depicted across a series of twelve black&white photographic prints and a self-tape playing on a hybrid digital box camera, the work engages viewers in various acts of looking to question where exactly visibility resides, particularly in photographic representations of queer and trans bodies.
rc prints, lace gloves, single-channel digital video on custom camera monitor, b&w, sound on speakers. 21m looped.
Set me freeee
said the camera or whatever
was inside
it pointed as it was
at the shutter or backdrop or
blank.
*click*
twelve times it was this
rotated round its axis each time
the invisible universe sucked
out by a crushed rubber ball breathing
open the sky like a birthday gorl.
*set me free*
and the blower
a nude (pretty)
contorted in hope
was fixed, later to lie
shed on the floor in glossy pulp
amongst lace and crops
and other such suggestions.
*click*
12 attempts to collapse my infinity immerses viewers within a self-portrait studio shoot of the artist. Depicted across a series of twelve black&white photographic prints and a self-tape playing on a hybrid digital box camera, the work engages viewers in various acts of looking to question where exactly visibility resides, particularly in photographic representations of queer and trans bodies.
Related exhibitions & events:
Group Exhibition: wolf MAD MAD, A.P.T Gallery 21-24 March 2024
Exhibition Talk, Sat 23-March at 2pm with the artists: indexthumb, Margot McEwen and Michèle Saint-Michel.
Postgraduate Degree Shows: Goldsmiths, University of London, 11-16 July 2024
Group Exhibition: wolf MAD MAD, A.P.T Gallery 21-24 March 2024
Exhibition Talk, Sat 23-March at 2pm with the artists: indexthumb, Margot McEwen and Michèle Saint-Michel.
Postgraduate Degree Shows: Goldsmiths, University of London, 11-16 July 2024