Alabama Invitational 2023 – Exhibiting Artist
I use sculpture, technology, and performance to question what it is to be living inside of a body. I make pleasurable objects that present a reductive and depersonalized way of relating to our bodies. I combine implied parts of the human body and elements drawn from the natural environment to create an alternate body in a pseudo-landscape of objects. I make a series of performative objects whose body implicates viscera and primordial imprints. I am framing the machinic body of the sculptures to be living on its own, becoming autonomous in the mechanized movement and circulation of internal fluids. The objects’ plastic flesh needs human assistance for survival; I provide care for the supposedly-living machines, injecting fluids and readjusting bodies. These objects operate within systems for performative gestures, assisted by instructions, scripts, and mechanics. My work becomes a starting point for a series of movements that reconfigures a body outside of itself within a network of exchange between fluids, vitalities, and functions.
