extend, moving image video

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This video is constructed from screenshots of a self portrait video edited together like stop motion, using pauses and gaps between frames to slow the body down and make its movements feel disjointed and exposed. Throughout the piece, the subject repeatedly enters and exits the frame: stretching, resting, undressing, and repositioning themselves. I was interested in how these small actions could begin to feel performative when continually observed and replayed.

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Made in response to the theme of artists’ labour, the work considers labour through endurance, vulnerability, and self-exposure rather than productivity alone. By breaking movement apart frame by frame, the piece draws attention to the effort involved in simply existing in front of the camera, where intimacy, exhaustion, and perception become tangled together. The text functions as a kind of meditation, echoing ideas of polarity of the self, especially around the energy for creating work. 

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