A work made in a moment when all that was there was this body, its dreams and nightmares and cycles and needs, sensations and wanting. I went mining. I haunt this work. I is a collection of already historical circumstances, remembered and un-remembered. I is a crowd. I is a trick of the light. The work situates research and an obsession with the unit of ‘one minute’, asking whether we can transform the stuff of time or whether it transforms us. Considering the invention of colonial time and agency, the ways we inhabit its units of fixed endless measurement, even as this time slips out of relation to the celestial bodies that have long been its anchor and justification. Working with live and recorded text written over 2020 from dreams and heartache and reflection— a wasteland of feeling—I I I  (something flat, something cosmic, something endless) is a wide and flat landscape as score for performance. A reading, a listening, a movement.

 

Concept, text, performance: SERAFINE1369 
Sound Design: Josh Anio Grigg 
Commissioned by: Liverpool Biennial 2021
Performances: the Bluecoat for Liverpool Biennial (June 2021) and Radialsystem for Montag Modus, Berlin (August 2021), Kiasma, Helsinki (June 2022), Immaterial, PEANA, Mexico City (February 2023)