TRANCEFACIAL
(2025)
is a performance-installation that summons a shifting continuum of ancestral trials. Hovering between digital inscription and the living body, a vertical, tower-like structure—wrapped in drawn glyph bandages and anchored by a slow-morphing facial video—is staged as a haunted interface. The installation unfolds as a ritual site for unstable memory, sonic mourning, and embodied transformation. As a post-language, anti-monumental gesture, TRANCEFACIAL underscores disappearance, displacement, and transformation.
It is a research process bridging toward the forthcoming trilogy work "7-3".
TRANCEFACIAL DRAWINGS
TRANCEFACIAL started with ink drawings as extended calligraphy 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. Located at a half emptied shopping mall CAP, Kiel, Germany.
TRANCEFACIAL GRAEF
The performance is staged within the installation as a testing mourning site. The soft drawn bandage, once transferred from the body, remained suspended and detached from the hard structure. Non-linear memory unfolds through acousmatic sonic atmospheres, gestures, relational movement, and polyphonic chants as a dialogue with the passing.
TRANCEFACIAL PERFORMANCE
Exhibition at Lusvardi Art Milano satellite space Kiel.
May 28th - July 25th.
Performance on May 28th.
Curated by Alessandro Rauschmann.
Research process is supported by Gwaertler Stiftung.