Entanglements

INSTRUCTIONS MANUAL:
“Entanglements” is a multimedia publication meant to document my spring semester at DDSKS, my collaboration for a theater, and my participation on events across borders as part of the MFA program, and those of high relevance as part of my current career activities.

The in-depth written statement that accompanies the portfolio is within the pages as a mode of preface, but here on this page you can see the embedded digital portfolio or download it for offline or printed reading, and along its pages, you will find a series of QR codes which take you to videos that you can also navigate below. These are meant to document the aspects of the process being described in the pages of this portfolio. (I am only embedding here those videos which are my own material).
The podcast episodes, (#61 to #66 for Teater Grob and #68 for the interview with Marc Von Henning) however, will not all have aired by the time this portfolio is evaluated, but some are already available below for listening, and the rest will continuously be released throughout the summer.

THE VIDEOS:

1. TYPING IT:
   
   “The Process is the Product” is a phrase, a decree, an understanding of the circular forms in which artistic process provides both input and output.

2. ERYTHEA SPEAKS

Erythea is one of the characters in my play “The House of Oscillations”.

Erythea is all red seas and red fabrics and red sands.
When Erythea speaks it is your flesh speaking, commands vibrating and resounding in the room as if in a dream.

Listen.
This is the first vision.

3. The NEVERSTOP Manifesto
During the Alexandria Nova workshop “Know Thyself” we were asked to write our own manifesto, and I recalled an essay I had written in New York back in 2012 to define my identity and understand the work I was doing / who I was becoming. Returning to this was a confirmation of the path. The product is the process.

4. ENTANGLEMENTS:
A playful exercise of automatic writing to answer the question “how to make this portfolio in a circular form to represent the way I process information”, connected with abstract art making and collage to begin building the foundation of the portfolio.

5. A meditation on ENTANGLEMENT:

A multimedia performance where I chant my mantra “The process is the product, the product is the process”, and thread from the information I collected throughout my journey, from the cut-up poems to the glossary of words to text on artistic research, entanglement, and other echoes of the rest of the portfolio. On the left, I play a track on my LYRA (an organismic instrument that uses principles of living organisms for making sound through behavior that resembles a conversation), and on the right, the pieces of the puzzle before being put together into a physical portfolio, before it all once again returned to its digital form.

Additional QR codes include: A link to the Red Thread poetry compilation, my song “Would You Like to Come Home?” as part of my play’s mood-board, additional audio and video made in collaboration with DDSKS peers, and the podcasts mentioned above, which you can preview here:

NOTES ON ENTANGLEMENTS

An end of semester portfolio.

As a final assignment for this semester, DDSKS asked us to present a digital portfolio (so if you look at the menu here you will find it by clicking Entanglements).

The idea of this was to document the stages and parts of this spring semester, from the modules to the internship and of course, our personal journey along the way.

Due to the assignment being in a territory I am comfortable navigating, mainly because of the 13 years of managing Red Door Magazine (my digital arts publication, now also a printed magazine) I decided to step away from the computer and work on the echoes that I heard from my specialization coordinators, supervisors, facilitators and pretty much everyone I encountered: This is about following the threads. Understanding the entanglements. visibilizing the connections.

To do so, I first divided all the content I wanted to talk about in categories or compartments by color, and then began filling these jars of knowledge with information. I made a selection of this and printed it, to once again get out of the computer, and then began the artistic visual process of working with thread, fabric, clay, paint, collage, typewritten phrases and other materials to begin turning these segments into the parts of my portfolio.

Depending on the duration and involvement of each part of the program, the digitalized or hand-made aspect shifted, as well as the length of information provided. As you can see, the threads become actively involved in the distribution of content, linking themes and stories together.

All of this was simultaneously filmed, edited, composed to, spoken with, re-edited and converted into mp3s or videos which links then became QR codes that arrived back to the pages; where I added graphics and text digitally, formatted and exported as a digital file… which then went up to the web on the link you find in this menu.

But because I’m a rebel, the portfolio doesn’t stay digital. I’m releasing it as a limited edition of 20 copies, which is what you see pictured in these photos, because, well, after 2 years of virtual reality, I confess I still prefer my analog experiences.

The dolls you see everywhere, are of course the characters of my play, whom I needed to materialize in order to look at them while I wrote their stories and tell their voices apart. Such is the mind of the artist.