Searching for Contact

A machine performance

Machine assembly, Silicon wires, 6 meters in length, 2019

Comprised of 1,000 individually threaded silicon and copper wires (6,000 meters in total length) suspended from a spinning robotic disk. The sculpture is highly susceptible to entanglement yet each thread remains isolated from the other through a carefully programmed choreography.

The suspended figure begins to spin and extends its limbs outwards in search of contact, disconnected threads pleading for entanglement.

We are all connected yet severed from the one next to us. A single vivifying force seeks to animate the audience like a machine dervish drawing our gaze upwards. This piece is a prayer, a peaceful pleading for more understanding and empathy with the self and towards the other.