Biometry and Other Stories
performative essay
video duration / real time : 22 min
Entropia Gallery, Wrocław, PL
5 June 2017
Biometry and Other Stories is a performative essay composed of a series of visual and textual episodes. The issues raised relate to the connections between architecture of the body, architecture of language and architecture of space. The method of the artist’s work is based on a drawing-and-verbal dialogue with the environment and herself. The key performance points located within the gallery space creates a diagram, which forms visible traces of the artist’s movements and narrative.
Circle
drawing performance
video duration: 4:40 min.
real time: 10 min.
Aula Gallery, Poznań, PL
13 January 2014
The performance refers to the condition of the human body in the contexts of administrative orders and state system’s regulation. The geometry of the body clashes here with Euclidean geometry, the expression of the body with formatting it through the entry from forms blank, such as: DOB, height, weight, nationality, address, language, religion, education, occupation, medical history, numbers of children, military status, et al.
