olya
salimova
To try to understand the experience of another it is necessary to dismantle the world as seen from one's own place within it, and to reassemble it as seen from his.
John Berger
muscle memory
performance with Simone Whiteley-Allen and Seth Sexton
installation / four dancers moving at the sound of the melody from memory / it is an exploration of the body mechanics and its dependence on time / the installation consists of two videos, two paintings (residue of the performance,) and four pairs of wax feet / it is an impetus to other projects – poetry, movement translated to art, and the artist's way to use her body as a tool in art making
sufficiently layered the materials and experiences form a time capsule, a foundation of memory, a propagation, an anlage. the bee produces and layers propolis to seal the hive off from wind, cold and predators. if a mouse makes her way into the hive she is stung to death by hundreds of bees and then swathed in the propolis, sarcophagus-like, because like the limestone used by the ancients for making coffins the propolis is a "flesh-eater" that decomposes the body of the mouse quickly. this is the way i like to think about it. this preservation of the flesh is also a preservation of time, a generative and abundant process.
