Tremble, 2021
Film stills by Christa Holka
Installation View (inside)
Installation View (outside)
Film stills by Christa Holka
Installation View (inside)
Installation View (outside)
Tremble, 2022 ( Bear Bath, Still #1), ink jet print on water resistant fabric. As part of the site specific installation iteration of 'Tremble' at Bärenzwinger Art Gallery in Berlin, DE, I submerged films still printed on water resistant fabric in the old baths where actual bears used to bathe when they were kept at what was the old bear cages. After three months of submersion, the prints changed completely and will move onto another iteration of the work.
Tremble, 2022 ( Bear Bath, Still #2), ink jet print on water resistant fabric. As part of my extended installation iteration of 'Tremble' at Bärenzwinger Art Gallery in Berlin, DE, I submerged films still printed on water resistant fabric in the old baths where actual bears used to bathe when they were kept at what was the old bear cages. After three months of submersion, the prints changed completely and will move onto another iteration of the work.
Tremble, 2022 (Installation still) As part of my extended installation iteration of 'Tremble' at Bärenzwinger Art Gallery in Berlin, DE, I installed video in the old cages where the bears of Berlin used to reside.
Tremble, 2022 (Installation still) As part of my extended installation iteration of 'Tremble' at Bärenzwinger Art Gallery in Berlin, DE, I installed video in the old cages where the bears of Berlin used to reside.
Sound Design: Neda Sanai
Cinematography: Imogen Heath
Still Photography: Christa Holka
Production Assistant: Kiki Mager
Flutter. Shutter. Quiver. Throb. Vibrations oscillate between all the holes and all the folds. Exposed under full house lights, a lone body trembles with the architecture of an empty darkroom. Closed due to COVID-19, in the darkroom of one of Berlin’s oldest gay cruising bars, through tableaus of nuanced movement, the artist's body proposes an ambiguous future towards abundance and desire. Skin and flesh palpitate with unknown anticipation against porous materials soaked with stale fluids, ghostly utterances, and queer potentials. This is not a memorial to what was once possible, but rather, a proposal to what this space can still become. Always an infinite hole. Always a threshold. The vibrant material of fat and flesh rock in service to ecologies and bodies not yet known. Tremble is the first work in a trilogy about the action and experience of trembling.
*Tremble is available as an immersive multi- media installation, with surround sound and a short film for screening.