performed by Cass Yao x Pheobe Chen x Sylvia Ke x Pallas Yao
curated by Rui Jiang
2024, The Compound, Baltimore
three-person performance
30 min
silicone and resin sculpture, raw silk, infusion tube, clamp, slime, contact mic, synthesizer
link to Full Documentation (30 min)↵
post-performance installation
Extract
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Twisting open the shapes that are glued together in the soul and catalyzing them separately, the surgery is performed in the most peripheral sphere. The technique does not occur on the body per se, but rather with symbolic orientation, it projects the virtual imaging of the divisible soul onto the unique flesh it possesses. Each organ is examined and clinically dissected with the sharpest scalpel possible. In collapsing invagination the gelation of the soul in the depths continues to liquify.
The sacred surgery occurs and traps itself in this blurred slit between nature and non-nature. Scums are spilled and they radiate their own startled pitch. In this invasive operation, non-parallel ideas derive from mind like a meat column rising from the center of brain fog. The pain and pleasure have curled up into one identical sensation, and every infant soul excised from the while has drifted apart with each other. Eventually, that weariness in the disconnection is refined into anesthesia.
Demented anesthesia gushes in the vein. The surgery is no longer visible. Arriving at this colossal blur, we gradually sacrifice ourselves to apporach the death with the height of ectasy. The kaleidoscope of fragmented souls folded back in the metabolism into exquisite constraints. In the eternal repetition of the surgical dance, our disintegrated body evaporates and became infinite tunnels leading to its ultimate intensity...
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