objects i cannot touch
Video (2014)
OBJECTS I CANNOT TOUCH is a video piece that was commissioned for The Avant exhibition at Tactic Gallery, Cork, Ireland in 2014. It emerged from conversations with Anna Moser in the context of a two-year feminist collaboration called Aesthetic Failures. The piece considers bodily gestures, geometrical metaphors, unwieldy desires, formal seriality, and the possibility of describing objects in the medium- and genre-specific realm of the (printed) text and through performance.
Originally titled, ‘Lines for Anna’, it was re-named for a performance at the Serpentine Sackler Gallery within the exhibition design is a state of mind, which presented various shelving systems and everyday design-objects that the visitors (and performers) were of course not allowed to touch.
[Prelude]
‘geometrical lines do not produce likeable people’
ah well now that is a different matter
i don't know what you’re talking about
oh these shelving systems
these so temporary frames
Publication:
Paratext 1 (2015).