fall(sss)
2023
installation with two-channel video (22:36, sound), website (www.fallsss.xyz), digital print on textile, safety netting, textile, filling
Developed from workshops in which participants experimented with languid fallings starting from an upright position (first alone with a pillow, and then in collective assemblages), the installation sets conditions for an infrastructure of falling and a sociable imaginary of our conditions of falling together. What would a world be like if it was reconstructed in the image of the falling? How do we take care of each other’s falls? What is there to hold the weight of the fall, and to soften the landing? How do we find the ground, again and again, differently or anew? Under these conditions, what then is the feeling of falling? What and who do you need to find a state of grace?
The centre screen displays www.fallsss.xyz, which uses the time of sunrise and sunset specific to a designated location to generate a space where movements of decrease and decline are explored against the backdrop of a gradually changing colourfield. From 21st June to 13th July 2023, its designated location was Tiohtià:ke / Montréal, Canada, within the context of the group exhibition InSomnolence.
In the exhibition InSomnolence at Agora Hydro-Québec du Coeur des Sciences (UQAM) in Montreal, Canada, organised by The Sociability of Sleep, fall(sss) was accompanied by I like to stay horizontal (2018, digital print on pillowcase).
Featuring www.fallsss.xyz (2019 – ongoing) and contributions from the participants of the series of workshops that took place in London, UK and Montreal, CA as part of the exhibition Standby, the light wavers (2022) and the residency with The Sociability of Sleep (2023)
Movement: Savannah Theis, Andrew Price, Jakub Modrzejewski, Josianne Barrette-Moran, Sally Souraya
Voice: Savannah Theis, Sally Souraya, Andrew Price, Ivetta Sunyoung Kang
Text: excerpts from traces made by the workshop participants, original and adapted text by Yoojin Lee
Sound: Giuseppe Termine
Web development: Young Jun Lee
Location: Professor Jean Barrette at McGill Physics Collection
