TALES FROM THE LINE

Single-Channel Video, Installation, Performance

Completed

2020

Tales from the Line focuses on labour through the lenses and elements of cinema, collapsing the traditional expectations for what a dance, text, or sculpture can be; a critique on entities that capitalize on a cheaper labor force in under developed countries but receive the benefits of doing business in highly industrialized countries.

Switching the power dynamics on what is expected, this piece is part of an extensive performative project based on research on the properties of dance, contemporary choreography, and its strategies, the human body in motion, mechanical replication, repetitive motions, movement pattern recognition, defense mechanisms, numbness, physical exhaustion, modern day slavery, presence, hidden and visible; invisibility of the labour, but also invisibility of the supervisor always watching, always around us, hidden at plain sight. Who makes up this tasks? Is it the audience? Is is a corporate entity? is it the artist? Why? When and where is this taking place? What are they manufacturing?