Imagine you are on a city street,
then you are the city street. You are the thoughts of the street, you are not
you. Then suddenly a man with a ladder knocks into your back. You are shocked
and ask yourself why and what’s going on. Then the shock disappears and you are
yourself again. In life we are constantly experiencing all three stages at the
same time.
Remembered dialogue from a performer
in a Tino Sehgal situation.
My art investigates divergence and assimilation: change in
form and the assimilation of self into other people, places and states of
being. I am driven by the desire to be so close to something, to
understand and love it so completely that I unite with it.
I begin this process by taking pictures of my body in a
space, with an object or with a person. Then I merge myself and the space
together. Once merged I begin editing myself out of the space: dissolving the
connection, dissolving space.