the gleaners and ritual for signaled bodies (2021)

A ritual for creating new worlds and situations for fragmented bodies signals pass through the joints of animated and genderless bodies and body parts entangling the bodysignalactions both materially and conceptually as these control mechanisms interfere with preanimated content Perpetually shifting surfaces and skins serve as sites of projection and interference contributing to the further queering of the state of these bodies and fragments that are stretched and submerged into and outside of the environment they inhabit as they encounter desire distress and ritualized oscillations Signals generate both sounds and compel movement the making of the images and the body further challenges the stability and integrity of the space in its otherworldliness and the spatial relationships it establishes with the audience At the edge between crisis and satisfaction the work adopts the role of Millets own gleaners makingdo on the boundary between sustenance and the devoid