DANGEROUS && MOVING

  POSTHUMAN DESIRE IN A FLEETING WILDERNESS OF CONTENT

DOE P/ESTRUS

BREATHING LANGUAGE DOE WITHIN ALGORITHM YOUTUBE ARCHIVE USER VIDEOS WILD DEER REPRODUCTION ANTI_ FUTURITY NARRATIVE BODY VIRTUALITY
FEMALE CYCLICAL END NO HOPE DESIRE HER ANIMAL SPRING SUMMER AUTUMN WINTER BIRTH DEATH MENSES FANFICTION EROS QUEER RUNNING
UMWELT PHENOLOGY CYBERNETICS ATTENTION ECONOMY MORPHOLOGY MIRROR SUBJECT BATAILLES

PROCESS : deer identity emergent within archive of ALL DEER VIDEOS POSTED ON YOUTUBE.
 

From  individual animal bodies - an experience of time cyclical reproduction narrative.

Deer as symbol of wild. earliest language division.

Language. cinematic, 




online video series created by archiving and editing amateur videos of deer posted online by users with varying intentions- from hunting 

videos to unexpected backyard encounters. 

By engaging with the deer subjectivity in a human body through trancelike states of meditation on the forces that drive all life forms she constructed vocal incantations of deer in the grips of a destructive and unstoppable desire.

The videos unfold as fragmentary and obscured visions of a narrative of love, desire, reproduction and death.

By positing the videos online, the work engages with the genre of online fanfiction inspired by the performance of a juvenile hyper-feminine in the nihilistic queer love story of Russian Europop band t.A.T.u. and

the processes by which virtuality elicits a constantly frustrated hope for life not found in the material world.

Stitching grand narratives onto disparate individual wild animals captured in amateur user-submitted videos posted on youtube exposes human tendencies towards narrative subjectivity in the face of 1) the “physical-natural” biological world and 2) the “virtual-algorithmic” online world.

Dangerous && Moving pits the subjectivities imposed on virtual content viewed online alongside the narratives we impose on the natural world via humans’ tendencies to anthropomorphize animal behaviors and impose narrative upon biological trends.

Cycles of death and reproduction inherent in the video documents- the changing of seasons and the stages of deer life (birth, sexual maturation, reproduction, and death)- guide me in vocalizing trancelike utterances of a doe deer subject struggling to hold onto life amidst a doomed pursuit for the object of her desires, also a doe deer.

Dangerous && Moving, an evocative and tragic queer love story, pushes the limits of our existing narratives of love, ego, death, reproduction and futurity in the face of pre-human and post-human temporalities.

MONOSYLLABIC

While the Spring and Summer sections of Dangerous && Moving’s narrative cycle are complete, the Fall and Winter segments are not. As Powerplant Artist-in-Residence I would have the time and space for re-immersion in the praxis of trance vocalization on the deer subjectivity that is necessary to complete the series.

Once completed, the videos will be reposted on youtube for Internet users worldwide to encounter amidst the archive of deer videos from which the series arose. It is crucial that these videos, once re-inserted into the algorithms of the youtube platform, remain undifferentiated from the mass of user-posted videos of deer and rather than emerging from the archive as “net art”. To complement the series’ secret virtual existence, I will create opportunities for immersive multimedia installations of the work for audiences in the physical world.