Stills from video
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Externally, the room hangs like a large object hung from the ceiling. It is made from black sound dampening curtains hung from a heavy duty track system. Inside the “curtain space” the floor is carpeted in dark gray, creating a warm sense of enclosure. The video, Cluster Praxis is structured by the sound —a narrative mix of voice and ambient soundscapes— dominated by a 5 minute long poetic monologue, which deals with assimilation and desire dissipating into the city. “Moving quickly from an excavation site through selected Psychasthenia facades to a [….] dance party, Cluster Praxis traces an ever-deepening subjectivity. The “objective” camera angle of the exterior shots gives way to the “subjective” first-person vantage, as the camera melts inconspicuously into a sea of undulating dancers.”* Cluster Praxis deals with dancing as a form of social practice, and with the desire for collectivity and bodily social liberation. The assimilatory aspect of dancing in a club or party makes the dancer part of the baroque mass erotification of social space. *(from review by Jordan Kantor in Artforum Jan, 02)