Two-Thousand Eight-Hundred Fourteen Approximations (2016)
(performance)
(performance)
Photos by Fiona Loseth & Val Winkl
Location: Matahari Loft, Montreal, CA
Duration: 3.5 hours
Two Thousand Eight-Hundred Fourteen Approximations was commissioned by experimental music collective, No Exist, to be performed as a part of their show at Montreal's Matahari Art Loft.
In the performance, the artist enters the space painted white in a pair of white geta and carrying a canvas bag filled with rice. A quartz crystal cluster was placed on the floor and they begin to place individual grains of rice, end to end, in a sort of mandala around it. Once the artist makes several contiguous rings around the crystal, they continue the trail into the space, weaving around furniture and through the audience, dividing the space with meticulously placed borders.
Inspired by Japanese butoh, the piece derives various elements from Zen and Tibetan buddhist practices, traditions and mythology.
Duration: 3.5 hours
Two Thousand Eight-Hundred Fourteen Approximations was commissioned by experimental music collective, No Exist, to be performed as a part of their show at Montreal's Matahari Art Loft.
In the performance, the artist enters the space painted white in a pair of white geta and carrying a canvas bag filled with rice. A quartz crystal cluster was placed on the floor and they begin to place individual grains of rice, end to end, in a sort of mandala around it. Once the artist makes several contiguous rings around the crystal, they continue the trail into the space, weaving around furniture and through the audience, dividing the space with meticulously placed borders.
Inspired by Japanese butoh, the piece derives various elements from Zen and Tibetan buddhist practices, traditions and mythology.