SLIP
Dimensions: Varies Medium: Performance, Video Projection, Found Object Year: 2024
Utilizing projections and dance, ‘Slip’ is a performative piece that showcases how the passage of time influences our present actions. This work grounds itself in the universal experience and phenomenon of time consumption.
The mind, to ensure safety and control, seeks to cover the present moment with fragments of the past and ideals for the future. This can hinder the infinite potential of being as it becomes overshadowed by fear and expectation imposed by our past and future. This piece highlights the struggle to that one may have to sit and live in the present as time passes them by.
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In the performance, the artist struggles to sit still on the chair, slipping off the chair with as surrounding influence grow louder. In this piece the artist explores multi-faceted versions of self with the body as a vessel by adopting qualities of each time period in this performance. Video mapping projections highlight the​ multiplication of the mind, incorporating sign language and repetitive motions to tell stories.
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Slip was exhibited at University of Arts London (UAL) as part of Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts collaborative exhibition with UAL in March 2024.
Documented Images of the performance taken by Laydio
The present is often motivated by past influences and the future aspirations. These fragments make a huge part of our being, showing us who we are, and what we could become. Sometimes we dwell in these pockets of time and live within these visions in our mind, leaving the present much to be explored.
Time becomes a teacher. A state of constant metamorphosis that sets the past and dances into the future. Could we live symbiotically with different facets of ourselves as we mold the present? Or are we only able to sit within one space at a time?
Documented Images of the performance taken by Laydio