Over 8 months, 8 national and international artists met virtually for the INVERSE 2021 residency program. At the end of the year, the artists gathered in person at The Momentary for a performance art symposium. During the multi-day symposium, the artists presented solo live performance art works, engaged in a group performance, shared video works, and participated in a roundtable discussion about their varied artistic practices.
The following documents the INVERSE 2021 Cohort's group performance. This was a laboratory where the artists created live art images, actions, sounds, and rituals in situ. Through an interactive space of play and experimentation, the artists shared their individual methodologies in the presence of Momentary audiences.
Sandrine started off this laboratory with an exercise based on their creative research for their Pace Investigations series. Asking how time is felt in the body and how that changes depending on who you are, where you are, when you are, and who you are with Sandrine prompted each artist to find a place in the room they were attracted to. Once they had found a place, they engaged a single action that could be repeated or sustained. The artists then made a simultaneous collective performance with these actions that repeated multiple times. With each repetition, the duration of the performance got shorter. What began as an 8-minute performance incrementally became a 30 second performance. The artists were challenged with how to adjust their actions based on this temporal restraint and the collective condition.
Participating artists included:
Christian Cruz
Natacha Voliakovsky
Siri Gurudev
Molly Joyce
Sylvain Souklaye
Kyoung eun Kang
Sandrine Schaefer
Tuty Moreno Campos