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2024
Installation, mixed media.
Installed in the cenacle of a church, ‘be still’ featured a new moving image work ‘Public Sentiment,’ a site-specific thrust stage, porcelain sculptures, and a sound work by musician and sound artist hihi.
Driven by the question of what a collective of care or a collective of neglect looks like, the work examines the conditions and infrastructures of public transit as a congregational space, considering the commute as a political site of mobility and to locate possibilities of public affect and communality.
The film follows a postmodern Pierrott clown stuck in a looping commute, where internal affect and public expectations come together to play. Historically understood as the fool who spoke truth to power, the clown represents disobedience to conform to a pervasive dissociative state that demands masking and performance.
The film and sound are independent yet linked; the film is looped four times to listen to the full score. Over time, the sound’s melodic structure disintegrates into ambient static noise.