2nd Performance, June 8th, 2024.
Score:
Enter the space and undress. Center myself. Jump up and down until physical failure. Bind chest. Rest. Jump again, bind again, rest again. Loop until exhaustion. Re-dress and exit.
Embodied Account:
“I enter the space. Ready to go, determined. I face the projected images and undress. Kars 3 is on the ground, right where I left them last time. I reconfigure them before stepping into the light of the projector. I take a breath to center and prepare myself. I start to bounce, then jump. I feel a sense of safety this time, as I know there will be multiple points of failure. I feel confident in this first round of jumps, like I could keep going. My calves begin to tire and I decide on a point of failure. I kneel to cut the tap. I stand, and tape my chest strip by strip. I am sweaty and the strips mostly don’t hold. I lay on top of Kars 3 and breathe to recenter myself, using their soft cushion for a place of safety and comfort. I stand and begin to jump again. I feel self conscious of the failure of the tap that is meant to bind my chest. I continue this loop: jump to failure, tap chest, rest. Each time I tape my chest there is another layer of tape added, patching things up where they have fallen off. Deciding when to stop the loop is difficult. I decide to stop when I am exhausted and the layers and layers of tape are seemingly stuck in place. This gives me a small sense of success in a set of failures. I catch my breath and recenter. With a sense of relief and accomplishment I redress and exit.”
Kars Dodds 