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A Sudden Drop uses found footage of fainting, gleaned from popular culture, in a sequence that attempts to distill the potency of a familiar bodily response. Typically seen as an ailment, an inability to cope with a stressful situation, and utilized to advance ideas of gendered vulnerability; this work repurposes the footage to align it with Sara Ahmed’s theory of bodily disorientation and its potential for a queer phenomenology. Edited together to heighten, slow and mutate this moment, A Sudden Drop considers the potential of this affective and transformative state, as one that can reflect on our disorientating contemporary moment.
Exhibited at James Hockey Gallery Farnham and Co-MMotion International Media Art Festa 《GONGJIN》, South Korea, 2025.
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