a breath, repose when?

The performer is carried into the building and slowly creeps out after paper strips marked with dates, places and numbers are placed on their back.

The work stages a bodily negotiation between breath and burden, turning statistical and historical timelines into a lived, dragging duration, and asking when and for whom repose in time becomes possible.

「
      watch straws powdered with golden dust
      all yesterday decays flipped
      another round
      
      still sacred
      still innocent and beloved
      on the lacerated back
      flaming
      with wings of longing and prolonged jolt
      
      days coming devouring remains of the past
      as dazzling
      as radiant
      an unknown dismal path
                                                                                  」

Presented as the Opening Performance of Rietveld Uncut 2023 at Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, NL.