Tunneling

Live Audio-Visual-Sculptural performance

* Note about the above trailer: all VR imagery is recorded from the visitor’s point of view – it is what you see when wearing the headset. Throughout the piece you are able to switch between first and third person points of view (i.e in and out of body).

This performance serves as a hybrid forensic investigation / tutorial, in which I dig a multilayered, projected tunnel in the wall of the performance space, revealing real and imagined substructures, materials and memories. The process utilizes high and low special effects techniques drawn from across the military-industrial-entertainment complex: from tactical wall probes to domestic demolitions, from live esthetic surgery to interactive cooking shows.

The piece is highly site-sensitive, as a different “tunnel” is constructed according to the materials and contexts present at the location of the performance. The project is an ongoing platform, incorporating text, sound and materials from my other audio visual projects focusing around different subject matter and site-sensitive context each time it is performed.

ABOVE: excerpts from solo Tunneling at Fridman Gallery’s New Ear 2019 festival in NYC.

BELOW: performance documentation from various locations

Selected performances:

• Fridman Gallery, Residency Unlimited, Hyphenhub , all solo performances in NYC

• Tel Aviv Centenial | D

• Bat Yam Museum, Israel | D

• Netmage 10, Bologna, Italy | S

• The Lab, San Francisco | S

• Links Hall, Chicago | S

D = With Daniel Davidovsky; S=With Surabhi Saraf

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