TRANCEFACIAL
"My father passed away, and I missed his funeral"
(2025-ongoing)
A series of Mobile Grief Temples, containing situated installations and performances. As a post-language, anti-monumental gesture, TRANCEFACIAL underscores disappearance, displacement, and resilience. As embodied epistemic inference, the research process is bridging toward the forthcoming 7-3 Trilogy.
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[TF3.0]
"On raining days, my mirror looks bigger"
The third chapter of TRANCEFACIAL unfolds by the sea, where water becomes a co-creator, eroding the boundary between technological ruin and organic transformation. The motion of the waves becomes a generative force — dissolving, renewing, and re-inscribing the body.
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[TF2.0]
"Fire, burnt R's work"
The second chapter of TRANCEFACIAL echoes Hermann Broch’s The Death of Virgil. The installation is suspended between destruction and preservation. Wrapped metal structures reappear as spatial anchors for the ritual of belief updating, with burnt fragments from Dan Su’s poetic fiction 7-3-R One Day Flight. Language collapses into sonic signal, into ruins, and the body becomes ordeal. Temple [TF2.0] is activated through live performance with Brazilian artist Aun Helden.
Performance activated TF2.0 with lights encountering the shadows.
Our lights and shadows are crossed,
through the open and sealed scar,
still burning,
turning inwards.
The sound of belief updating cannot wash away all the pain.
Exhibition part of "Burial Jar" at Lusvardi Art, Milan, Italy.
September 28th - October 18th.
Performance on September 26th.
Curated by Alessandro Rauschmann.
Press by PESSIMA.
TF2.0 BOUND
TF2.0 GRAEF
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TF2.0 BELIEF UPDATE1
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TF2.0 BELIEF UPDATE2
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photo © Lars Larkin
TF2.0 PERFORMANCE
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[TF1.0]
"I lost my feet in the screen"
Hovering between digital inscription and the living body, a vertical, tower-like structure which is wrapped in drawn glyph bandages and anchored by a slow-morphing facial video, is staged as a haunted interface. Located at a half emptied shopping mall CAP, Kiel, Germany, the installation unfolds as a ritual site for unstable memory, sonic mourning, and embodied transformation.
TF1.0 DRAWINGS
TRANCEFACIAL [TF1.0] started with ink drawings as extended writing practice that carried ancestral intuition. It then transformed into digital media, spatial and performative, anchored in grief.
The digital video is based on 33 drawings that slowly morph into one another. The transitions are barely recognizable without trance-like, hypnotic attention.
The installation is a structure that transmits post-human mourning and ancestral data, hybridizing drawn glyph bandages, metal racks, digital media, and soil.
TF1.0 GRAEF
TF1.0 PERFORMANCE1
Performance1 activated the mourning site through embodied sonic memory. After the act of wrapping the towel, the soft drawn bandage was transferred from the body, and remained suspended. Non-linear memory unfolds through acousmatic sonic atmospheres, gestures, relational movement, and polyphonic chants as a dialogue with the memory.
Performance2 on the closing date unfolds as a durational somatic recursion: a hybrid morphing, living sculpture that reconfigures temporal perception. The performance challenged the threshold of two different realities: the outside consumption oriented public space and the inside invented mourning space, loosely connected through the bandage, amplified as an error like glitch.
(performance filmed with 360 camera)
TF1.0 PERFORMANCE2
photo © Alessandro Rauschman
Exhibition part of "Reality Glitch" at Lusvardi Art Milano satellite space Kiel.
May 28th - July 25th.
Performance1 on May 28th.
Performance2 on July 25th.
Curated by Alessandro Rauschmann.
Research process is supported by Gwaertler Stiftung.