longva+carpenter

  • About
    • Bio
    • Statement
    • Longva Bio
    • Carpenter Bio
  • Projects
    • Lineage
    • Shift
    • Nede for Telling
    • Come
    • Discrete | Diskret
    • Hunger
    • Thirst
    • Shelter
  • Connect
    • Contact
    • Links
    • Join our elist
  • News
  • BOOK
  • 0 item

longva+carpenter 2023

Made with Pixpa
Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Pin to Pinterest Post on Tumblr Copy link to share LINK COPIED

Discrete | Diskret

'Discrete | Diskret' is three linked performances exploring obligation and oppression—both external and internalized—and the ways we all succumb to and reinforce a cultural system that prevents true cooperation.

In Part 1, the artists are bound by a long band, facing away from the other, holding the other’s weight, leaning sharply, almost flying, but one sudden move throws off the balance, causing an ungraceful slip. The artists are each trying desperately to inhale a dangling feather through a narrow drinking straw. Their breathing constricted, they struggle for the feather, fully dependent upon but also impeded by the other. The artists in Part 2 slump into faceless pillows, facing walls or glass windows, though never able to see the other. They explore the artificiality of emotion as laughter mimics crying, using up their breath. In Part 3, the artists face each other, finally, but their vision is soon obstructed as each breath fills an oversized balloon. The inflatables fill the space between them, then strain for enough space, rubbing and bumping, nearly bursting, as the twin forms echo the fatigued lungs.

If only we could notice the other as more than a brace for our own distress. In ways both global and personal our culture glorifies isolated individuation. In response, the artists strive to honor our messy, mismatched, embodied humanity.

Contexts: 4th International Festival of Ephemeral Art | In Situ Foundation | Sokolowsko, Poland | July 2014
NOoSPHERE Arts | New York, NY, USA | June 2014

Performed each for 3 hours

infinite loader

infinite loader

infinite loader

infinite loader

infinite loader

infinite loader

infinite loader

above | Contexts: International Festival of Ephemeral Art, Sokolowsko, Poland, 2014 | photos by Rita Marhaug

infinite loader

infinite loader

infinite loader
infinite loader

infinite loader
above | NOoSPHERE Arts, New York, NY, USA, 2014 | photos by Diane Dwyer
infinite loader

infinite loader

infinite loader