ALREADY DEAD. FEEDBACK LOOPS OF DESPAIR

2020
performance
duration: 40 min
Developed during artist in residence program at Grace Exhibition Space, New York City, USA

The biggest problem we face is a philosophical one: understanding that this civilization is already dead. The sooner we confront this problem, and the sooner we realize there’s nothing we can do to save ourselves, the sooner we can get down to the hard work of adapting, with mortal humility, to our new reality.

Roy Scranton, “Learning How to Die in the Anthropocene.”, New York Times

I want you to panic.

Greta Thunberg, World Economic Forum 2019

We live in a time of the sixth mass extinction, where all life is dying out as a result of human activity on earth, driven by an extractivist mindset. The catastrophe has already taken place, but it still resonates - a symphony of loss and destruction, a disturbed balance.

Let's mourn the loss, let's cry for the dead - humans, animals, plants, devastated ecosystems, polluted waters, earth and air. Let tears wash the wounds and broken hearts, let the song of despair resound and be heard, for its recognition in order to begin the healing process.

This performance is a mourning for loss. An action to embody something as abstract as issue of climate change. It is a lamentation. To acknowledge feelings of grief and despair. They need to be experienced in order to move on, to transform, heal, change - within spiritual frame.