Ode to Elisar, 2023
Ode to Elisar is a performative multimedia video installation embodying the artist’s porous relation to her own physical boundaries and that of the compound’s. The performance annotates the displaced body’s constant search for a home, and its ritualistic act of movement and migration.
The artist’s body here, is as a tool of measurement as well as comprehension of one’s ownership of space within a shifting urban landscape. The act of then marking the physical dimension of the compound exterior walls with a chord, and embracing the self in various forms, personifies an uncomfortable shift in one’s relationship to memories of home.
The artist has actively engaged in the documentation of the interior compound space for two years. Experimenting with a multitude of photo and video methods to record a period of time in which the compound structure and plan began to shift. Having lived in what the artist describes as this ‘gated oasis’ since early childhood, this collection of visual and material references, here extends to a physical chord which weaves together these fragments of memory.
This is an extension of a larger body of works exploring notions of home-sickness and home-making through photography, videography, performance, alchemy, archiving, weaving, sculpture and other material assemblages.
(This work was done as part of the Intermix Residency second edition).
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