21 Scores for Losing Yourself in a Body (2024)
16mm, hand-processed film, digitally scanned with HD video; Stereo sound; Colour; 23m01s
For her somatic film, artist and filmmaker Michèle Saint-Michel collaborated with 34 London artists to capture event score-based somatic choreographies. The event scores in “21 Scores for Losing Yourself in a Body'' invite participants to explore the edges of their interiority through somatic experiencing captured digitally and on 16mm film. Saint-Michel hand processed the 16mm film, which is superimposed digitally with single shots of the skyscape over London. Sound for the film is provided by award-winning experimental composer Peter Flint.
Sublimation of the Unquenchable Body (2024)
Collection of 6 silk textiles, digitally printed, hand finished, 300cm x 100cm
Large textile prints accompany the film as a collection of visual poems. The visual poems are digitally printed on hand-finished silk organza, 300cm x 100cm. Titles are borrowed lines from Jorie Graham poems. These include: “Wide hands squeeze together low-hanging clouds”, “The speed of light, down here, upthrown in my hands”, and “It is a tender maneuver, hands making and unmaking promises”, among others.
16mm, hand-processed film, digitally scanned with HD video; Stereo sound; Colour; 23m01s
For her somatic film, artist and filmmaker Michèle Saint-Michel collaborated with 34 London artists to capture event score-based somatic choreographies. The event scores in “21 Scores for Losing Yourself in a Body'' invite participants to explore the edges of their interiority through somatic experiencing captured digitally and on 16mm film. Saint-Michel hand processed the 16mm film, which is superimposed digitally with single shots of the skyscape over London. Sound for the film is provided by award-winning experimental composer Peter Flint.
Sublimation of the Unquenchable Body (2024)
Collection of 6 silk textiles, digitally printed, hand finished, 300cm x 100cm
Large textile prints accompany the film as a collection of visual poems. The visual poems are digitally printed on hand-finished silk organza, 300cm x 100cm. Titles are borrowed lines from Jorie Graham poems. These include: “Wide hands squeeze together low-hanging clouds”, “The speed of light, down here, upthrown in my hands”, and “It is a tender maneuver, hands making and unmaking promises”, among others.
Michèle Saint-Michel is a filmmaker, artist, and poet. She makes work around issues of power, feminist ecologies, somatic memory, and quantum mechanics. Often incorporating poetry and archival footage with preserved insects, seeds, and leaves, Saint-Michel taps into nature as an allegory for emotional experiencing. Working across poetry film, Fluxus sound, movement, and books, her works construct paradoxical tensions within polytemporalities, foregrounding healing, softening as resistance, and the poiesis of more care-full futures. Saint-Michel is the author of four books, a set of journals, and a colouring book.
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Axiogenesis (2024) Michèle Saint-Michel
Axiogenesis (2024)
Multi-channel video, disentangled quadraphonic score, colour, 12m.
Your optimism is admirable. At times you need to bring yourself down to earth
_All the way down
_Stretch yourself out
_Look up at the birds ghosting in the blue
_Let yourself be
_Here and now
Things don’t happen unless something makes them happen
Will to Power (2024)
Diatomaceous earth (fossilized microalgae skeletons), starch, poetry.
What moves as a body, returns as a movement of thought
Possible paradigms: autonomisation, relation, biophilia; emergence, complexity, process, individuation, (auto)poiesis; ephemeral existentialism, disintermediation; direct perception, embodied perception, perception-as-action; speculative pragmatism, speculative realism, radical empiricism; meditation, virtualization; ecology of practice, media ecology; technicity; micropolitics, biopolitics, ontopower, the inexorable power of revolt.
CAN touch
Please DO NOT inhale, taste, consume
Multi-channel video, disentangled quadraphonic score, colour, 12m.
Your optimism is admirable. At times you need to bring yourself down to earth
_All the way down
_Stretch yourself out
_Look up at the birds ghosting in the blue
_Let yourself be
_Here and now
Things don’t happen unless something makes them happen
Will to Power (2024)
Diatomaceous earth (fossilized microalgae skeletons), starch, poetry.
What moves as a body, returns as a movement of thought
Possible paradigms: autonomisation, relation, biophilia; emergence, complexity, process, individuation, (auto)poiesis; ephemeral existentialism, disintermediation; direct perception, embodied perception, perception-as-action; speculative pragmatism, speculative realism, radical empiricism; meditation, virtualization; ecology of practice, media ecology; technicity; micropolitics, biopolitics, ontopower, the inexorable power of revolt.
CAN touch
Please DO NOT inhale, taste, consume
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.
Somatic Micro-Workshop, Sat 23-March at 3pm with 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.
Somatic Micro-Workshop, Sat 23-March at 3pm with Michèle Saint-Michel.
Postgraduate Degree Shows: Goldsmiths, University of London, 11-16 July 2024