Unstable Surface, Team Performance, 2018

“Unstable Surface” is a team project for Sara Oppenheimer's workshop, "Sensitive Machine." The group consisted of 5 different people with different physical quantities such as height, speed,  balance and so on. As an entity of working bodies, each participant is influenced by the displacement of other visions and bodies. A participant’s sense of balance is continuously shattered, disoriented, and disrupted. Accordingly, the surface of our extended body, the grid fabric, becomes a site where multiple perspectives overlap and collage. Pearl markers were attached to fabric surface in order to detect our movement with motion tracker and translate into numerical data. We also adapted a view from the vertical perspective to disrupt a sense of balance when perspectives are twisted and multiplied.

"This disorientation is partly due to the loss of a stable horizon. And with the loss of horizon also comes the departure of a stable paradigm of orientation, which has situated concepts of subject and object, of time and space, throughout modernity. In falling, the lines of the horizon shatter, twirl around, and superimpose."
—From "In Free Fall: A Thought Experiment on Vertical Perspective" by Hito Steyerl