performativity, proximity, mimesis, materiality, melancholy, entanglement, embodiment, corporeality, capital
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02.23 - 24, 2023
Conference:
Metamorphoses of Mimesis: Plasticity, Subjectivity and Transformation
with Catherine Malabou,
organized by Institute of Philosophy at KU Leuven, Belgium
12.03.22-01.07.23
Intimate Things
Phase Gallery
Los Angeles, CA
04.23 - 05.07’22
Complex systems
UAG gallery
University of California, Irvine
01’22
Touching-Touched
Essay published in journal for
theoretical and critical texts on emerging media in the arts
@FlatJournal
Issue 2
07’21
Material-i-ty / Material-and-you
Small volume book with essay contributions by Cara Benedetto, Farrah Karapetian and Anthony Leslie
01.24 & 01.31’21
Long Beach, CA
GLAMFA CSULB
New dates for manifeso writing workshops: CARE AS DISCIPLINE; co-organized with A.Baginski and Silvi Naçi
10.11 & 10.25’20
Los Angeles, CA
UCLA New Wight Biennial
HOPE AS DISCIPLINE -manifesto writing workshop; organized in collaboration with A.Baginski and Silvi Naçi
04.14’19
Valencia, Ca
California Institute of the Arts
The Absent Museum
Madin Lopez, ProjectQ
(curatorial)
07’18
Gdańsk, PL
Łaźnia Contemporary Art Center
Symptomatic Eruptions of the Avant Garde: Martine Syms, Stanya Kahn, Mary Reid Kelley and Patrick Kelley, Kim Schoen (curatorial)
05’16
Los Angeles, CA
Feminist Center for Creative Work
Against the Grain: experimental films by Polish women artists; discussion by Aniko Imre and Eve Oishi (curatorial)
performativity, proximity, mimesis, materiality, melancholy, entanglement, embodiment, corporeality, capital
Futile Experiments in Mimesis, 2018
Single channel video with audio, 18min. drywall, wood, concrete, raw canvas, paper, c-prints
The performative action in the work addresses classical (mimetic) system of representation. It engages ritualized and mundane gestures (clasped arms, rocking motion) as repetition that is at once a reenactment and re-experiencing of a set of meanings already socially established. The action is an attempt to challenge the patriarchal representation, rooted in the writings of Aristotle and throughout Western philosophy, of a Mother and a Woman figure as a performative subject.
The exhibition posits a claim for a political and representational visibility in contemporary culture through examination of text, embodiment and a notion of feminist mimesis to dislodge women from their prison-house of historical pain and to release the transgressive corporeality of the female performer.
Presented at Stevenson Blanche, California Institute of the Arts.
Sound design: Alan S. Tofighi,
Installation images: Daniel Alcazar
