Karla Solano
Hogar (Home)
2004
stills from video
Department of Biological Flow
Jewel Box
2013
ballizein poetics (no.2)
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[google docs live editing (or a dance floor) > 2 artificial identities + 1 opening + hearst castle inspiration + joules > james zabiela/sasha involv3r time constraint and emergent poem = ‘jewel box’]
Dennis Oppenheim
Two Stage Transfer Drawing
1971
performance
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“As I run a marker along Eric’s back he attempts to duplicate the movement on the wall. My activity stimulates a kinetic response from his sensory system. I am, therefore, Drawing Through Him”
Spin the bottle
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Dark matter, this
All fumble and handed
Strange charmer you
Are (will be (already)
You
You
Fall toward midnight
Depths pulling darkly
Strong our way curving
There, warmer than the
Math said dizzy (x) we
Expon’t upon these
Intensity pulsings
Here, these (x)yzz-vectors
Beginning to tremble we
Flip
Right through the bottle
Left you silkspinning
Still.
So stellar, this
Swapnaa Tamhane
The Institute of Knots
2012
performative installation
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Scotiabank Nuit Blanche, Independent Projects
Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art courtyard, Toronto
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“Viewers were invited to make knots, while I unknotted the knots simultaneously.”
Department of Biological Flow
Pac-Man Death Ritual
2012
process machine for kleinian gamespace
Austin, Texas
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An aesthetico-ethical gamespace is pre-imaged in Austin, TX, featuring a topological folding of the infamous Pac-Man videogame. The Department of Biological Flow players are to move in variations of 8-bit robotic through grid-like formations around an irregular gameboard.
Banana rewards await, and will be ingested.
Just as Pac-Man folds in upon itself at death, so too will the players — attempting an inversion of the body as if a contracting klein bottle in the death throes of impulsion. The banana peel remains — as remains — of this infolding or unfolding. And again and again, until the gaming process is complete.
Only en route do they find out the gamespace has already begun.
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Performance time: approximately 3.5 hours or 20 minutes.
Department of Biological Flow
minute second third
work-in-process
performance
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keywords: versus, sprinting, subway, dromology, clinamen, polygon, surveillance, exhaustion, tangent, vertigo, skin, curves
Like an ear or a seashell
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Stippling hives braille breathlessly
Bloody jam and sticky sense of
Diff’rence pitters past manifold
Shimmering sweet for all that
Feel its weightless worth in bold.
Knittering knots fail needlessly
Small sutra sutures given wing
For egress statements manifest
Smoothing slow vast digital
Velvet vistas far from rest.
