Photo by Alonso Benavente Fortes
Body Mods is an immersive multichannel video and sound piece that uses trippy layered visuals and a lo-fi synth sonic composition to create a laidback pensive atmosphere. Viewers are invited to move through the installation at their own discretion and situate themselves in the work as they please, as it is designed in a spatially aware manner that evokes various levels throughout the space through use of projections, a CRT video, and an arrangement of speakers. The work aims at providing a lucid introspective environment for viewers to be cozy and contemplate the intersections between queerness, the body, media, and technology. Thoughts around how intimacy and images manifest through queer bodies and experiences are explored in an abstracted manner, as well as how various technologies inform and disrupt our perception of these themes in everyday life.
Exquisite Pressure x Bitting School Feb 16 + 17 2024
Curated and hosted by The Biting School
A few words from them:
These works contain:
• Deviant, Perverse, and/or Surrealist performance (theatre, dance, performance art, etc).
• Deviant, Perverse, and/or Surrealist performance (theatre, dance, performance art, etc).
Manifesto:
• This work will be incomplete
• This work will be experimenting with a question or an itch
• This work will be inclusive of extremes
• This work will be queer or will queer
• This work might be nothing valuable
• This work will be 20 min in duration or less
• This work might only be presentable once
• This work might be perishable and unreconstructable
• This work will be incomplete
• This work will be experimenting with a question or an itch
• This work will be inclusive of extremes
• This work will be queer or will queer
• This work might be nothing valuable
• This work will be 20 min in duration or less
• This work might only be presentable once
• This work might be perishable and unreconstructable
Overall installation view showing all three visual components
Wall projection close-up + audience
Original score created combining recorded synth, gathered atmospheric sounds, distorted tech sounds, and other digital manipulations.
Composition has three parts: ambient wandering, intensity wave, introspective outro.
Floor projection + hand sculpture detail
Wide angle side-view of installation
Details of video components
Looped video that played on CRT
Close-up of wall projection over mannequin
Close-up of CRT video
Wall projection
Floor projection + CRT
Wide angle from back of room
Audience
Process - burning + testing DVDs
Setting up installation
Bathroom friend
Longer documentation video of installation
Close-up of wall projection