Admiration Is the Furthest Thing from Understanding (2021)
(performance / installation)
(performance / installation)
Photos: Kanrapee Chok. Courtesy of the artist.
Location: Bangkok Arts and Culture Centre (BACC), Bangkok, TH
Duration: 8 hours/day; 8 days
Eight hours a day for eight days, the performer is to remain immobile, blinded, lying face up atop a structure. The piece recalls a burial rite. It partly based on an image from Andrei Tarkovsky’s The Mirror (1975) of a
sleeping woman levitating above her bed. This image is often portrayed in the horror film genre to represent when a human being is possessed demons or angels.
This channels Afrodiasporic notions of dispossession, the figure alludes to histories of bodily dissociation. This may be seen as a reflection of the ways in which enslaved African people interpreted their own lived precarity that gave way to forms as manifestations of deliverance, and to embodiment as divine architecture.
Duration: 8 hours/day; 8 days
Eight hours a day for eight days, the performer is to remain immobile, blinded, lying face up atop a structure. The piece recalls a burial rite. It partly based on an image from Andrei Tarkovsky’s The Mirror (1975) of a
sleeping woman levitating above her bed. This image is often portrayed in the horror film genre to represent when a human being is possessed demons or angels.
This channels Afrodiasporic notions of dispossession, the figure alludes to histories of bodily dissociation. This may be seen as a reflection of the ways in which enslaved African people interpreted their own lived precarity that gave way to forms as manifestations of deliverance, and to embodiment as divine architecture.