Dialogue with Accumulation

Vide0 animation and  performance 

✦ 2022 - De Ruitme - Amsterdam - with Raffia Li
✦ 2021 - Radio Koowijt - Apeldoorn, Netherlands  - with Lou Lou Sainsbury and Kari Rosenfeld

Dialogue with accumulation is a video and performance developed during the earlier stages of the COVID-19 lockdown. Touch is a transformational gesture that informs the surfaces and skins that perform it. But touch is regulated: elements inside any (power) structure are organise in specific ways that determine which elements are allowed to be in touch with each other and which are kept at a distance. This piece is a response to those privileged touches that would be able to transform our present and material reality and because of this nature, are out of reach. The result is merely a perpetuation of gestures that can only numb the membranes of our senses. Skins therefore become used to interact through non-transformative touches until no change can be imagined. Dialogue with accumulation alludes to this layering of numbing touches and responds to those that are privileged enough to transform the world with one simple handshake.