scum circle

Hošek Contemporary — 2023 Art Prize

created and performed with Caroline Neill Alexander & Camila Malenchini

sound score by Samuel Hertz & Dan Immanuel Roth

What happens when one is oddly intimate with strange bodies? What emerges when we embrace the enigmatic? What will become of us as we rub off on each other over long stretches of time? in scum circle we slip, slide, and shift identities into, out of, and beyond previous conceptions of the self. We burrow in, getting under the skin of transformation. On a great reflective expanse of amniotic fluid we explore the extreme malleability of the body: how it is sensed from within and performed, and how it can combine with and excite another body into an entirely new organism. It is a poly-morphous system, changing moment by moment, each body’s motions combining with the others in infinite ways. We treat each combination like a new life form.

“Just like that, I fell asleep. The three spheres continue to dance in my dream, a patternless, never repeating dance. Yet in the depths of my mind, the dance did process a rhythm; it was just that it’s period of repetition was infinitely long.” - Three Body Problem