Tickers
(2002)
a participatory project for Send & Receive, Winnipeg, 2002.
from programme:
A city's identity contains an inherent tension between order
and chaos. From the history of its physical expansion to its
development of community standards and its conflictual relation
to critical cultures (graffiti, street protests, performance
art, etc.), the city is an organism which defies planning
and prediction. The individual contains similar internal struggles.
Both navigate nervously between the controllable and the uncontrollable.
"Tickers" is part of an ongoing project consisting of portraits
of cities through the bodies of its inhabitants. With "Crackers"
(Ottawa, 1997) participants were recorded cracking their joints.
With "Pokers" (Montréal, 2001) the sonic properties
of taciturn faces were explored. With "Tickers" (Winnipeg,
2002) we will investigate the rhythmic possibilities of facial
tics. These projects perform impossible attempts to constitute
somatic communities; they result in sound and video portraits
which oscillate between awkward intimacy and playful complicity.
Participants need no prior experience, only a willingness
to experiment.
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