Transmettre

Transmettre is an experimental, non-narrative work exploring connection, transmission, and quantum entanglement. The piece attempts, by the force of its atmospheres, to make viewers see with new eyes the year that sculpted the “Before times” from the ether.

The piece includes this declaration: We must begin to hold competing ideas as distinct, yet inextricably interconnected. We must make space for complexity, nuance, and data points. We must find strength in our flexibility. Recognize that our binaries both do not define us and-both/and are essential. We must become more comfortable with our discomfort and increasingly attuned to its arrival.

Like water, we are now challenged to become persistent, erosive, and devastating; AND yielding, restorative, and life-giving. Our storytelling must operate with this same multiplicity and multidimensionality. It must move atomically. We must tell stories that can penetrate bone and be absorbed directly into the marrow. Our approach must operate via a matrix of understanding and unlearning: a topography, a geography, and an oral history. Works must be taken in like pulling down the washing when it starts to rain. We must hold them under our own skin, at arm’s length, and like someone we hate who’s come to us in tears. The work must become an unsolvable enigma and we must share every answer.