Live performance (75 minutes)
A collaboration with Elle Short
Material
Skin, blood, muslin
Information
A continuation of a poetic investigation around Lichtenberg Figures. Lightning survivors sometimes bear temporary marks of the Figures on their skin that gradually fade over 24 hours. A different marker of a day. Force Nature is a bloodlining tattoo of Lichtenberg Figures that will also gradually fade. Etched into skin and swabbed onto muslin cloths, the performance was part of Trykk-i-san tid (real time printing) at Kunstvarteret, Lofoten, Norway. Beginning at 16:57 on summer solstice, it also was a marker of a particular day during the period of Lofoten’s midnight sun.
Performed
Version 1: Kunstvarteret, Lofoten, Norway
Version 2: Galerie Gedok, Stuttgart, Germany as part of the Carving the Landscape exhibition.
Photographs
Version 1: Christian Eickhoff and Kjellaug Hatlen Lunde
Version 2: Marco Teschke and Traci Kelly
Live performance (75 minutes)
A collaboration with Elle Short
Material
Skin, muslin, white ink
Information
A continuation of a poetic investigation around Lichtenberg Figures, critiquing aspects of ‘whiteness’ as a fractal structure that excessively marks some bodies that it touches whilst disappearing from view for others. In addition it is a further permutation of the consideration of elemental energy, an abrasion felt like fire. Performed as part of the Carving the Landscape exhibition as a live skin etching and contact print making.