Surface Connection: Monica Duncan & Senem Pirler

SURFACE CONNECTION: Monica Duncan & Senem Pirler

Selected video + performance work by Senem Pirler and Monica Duncan. The program will include a screening of Senem Pirler and Monica Duncan’s collaborative video work and a live audiovisual performance of Surface Connection. Surface Connection explores the concept of queer space, the non-human, and their relationship to queer bodies through a series of audiovisual intra-actions where we touch/excite surfaces and objects. Through this performance, we investigate the question of how “queering” happens when non-human and human bodies intra-act with one another in a complex audiovisual ecosystem. In our performance, we channel our camp sensibility and  create performative actions by collaborating with the non-human. By amplifying the vibrated surfaces (such as a reflective mylar) through the close-up cameras and microphones, we “disrupt” the assumption of how bodies move in space, and we “deviate” bodies from their normative representations and their linear paths.

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