Fri April 5, 2013
The Evoco Project: recent work by Midori
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at Center for Sex and Culture
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The Evoco Project is an ongoing, multi phase project about how we create, hold, interpret and alter memory, as subjective experience, phenomenon, and neurological process. In this increasingly socially connected world, the group felt and group experienced event is held with mounting greater regard, especially as the incident is recounted, recorded, retold, reposted and more. We are coming to accept that the reproduction of aggregate fragments, collected over repeated replication, to reach some greater truth. Yet neurologically memory is constantly altered, with each recollection, some neural pathways are strengthened while others atrophy. With each remembrance, some details fade while others expand. Every recollection mutates the memory further from original moment’s experience.
The Evoco Project begins with a gathering. Guests are asked to be present and to enjoy the moment and the creation that will take place before them. They’re invited to create memory, to take pleasure in each other’s company, to take photos, to post them online, or in other ways to capture the creation before them and create their memory. Working with performer, I create a large flower arrangement with their body, flora and ropes. I then paint the installation, body and all, with sumi ink. The flora, rope, skin and ink mix to create a verdant olfactory experience. Next, I print portions of the body onto paper, capturing portions of the form, but like memory, never the totality of the form.
Later, I sit with the prints and try to recall the group experience. With gold leaf and paint I embellish what comes forth. The gold leaf adheres like devotional acts of longing to a perfect past.
When each work is delivered to a Chinese or Japanese scroll maker, I ask them to choose the color of the brocade silk. I want them to experience and interpret the piece, without sharing the history and provenance of the images. In the end, what was originally a recording of an experience and artifact of memory is changed into an object entirely unique, creating new memories for those who encounter it.
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The Evoco Project begins with a gathering. Guests are asked to be present and to enjoy the moment and the creation that will take place before them. They’re invited to create memory, to take pleasure in each other’s company, to take photos, to post them online, or in other ways to capture the creation before them and create their memory. Working with performer, I create a large flower arrangement with their body, flora and ropes. I then paint the installation, body and all, with sumi ink. The flora, rope, skin and ink mix to create a verdant olfactory experience. Next, I print portions of the body onto paper, capturing portions of the form, but like memory, never the totality of the form.
Later, I sit with the prints and try to recall the group experience. With gold leaf and paint I embellish what comes forth. The gold leaf adheres like devotional acts of longing to a perfect past.
When each work is delivered to a Chinese or Japanese scroll maker, I ask them to choose the color of the brocade silk. I want them to experience and interpret the piece, without sharing the history and provenance of the images. In the end, what was originally a recording of an experience and artifact of memory is changed into an object entirely unique, creating new memories for those who encounter it.
The Evoco Project is an ongoing, multi phase project about how we create, hold, interpret and alter memory, as subjective experience, phenomenon, and neurological process. In this increasingly socially connected world, the group felt and group experienced event is held with mounting greater regard, especially as the incident is recounted, recorded, retold, reposted and more. We are coming to accept that the reproduction of aggregate fragments, collected over repeated replication, to reach some greater truth. Yet neurologically memory is constantly altered, with each recollection, some neural pathways are strengthened while others atrophy. With each remembrance, some details fade while others expand. Every recollection mutates the memory further from original moment’s experience.
The Evoco Project begins with a gathering. Guests are asked to be present and to enjoy the moment and the creation that will take place before them. They’re invited to create memory, to take pleasure in each other’s company, to take photos, to post them online, or in other ways to capture the creation before them and create their memory. Working with performer, I create a large flower arrangement with their body, flora and ropes. I then paint the installation, body and all, with sumi ink. The flora, rope, skin and ink mix to create a verdant olfactory experience. Next, I print portions of the body onto paper, capturing portions of the form, but like memory, never the totality of the form.
Later, I sit with the prints and try to recall the group experience. With gold leaf and paint I embellish what comes forth. The gold leaf adheres like devotional acts of longing to a perfect past.
When each work is delivered to a Chinese or Japanese scroll maker, I ask them to choose the color of the brocade silk. I want them to experience and interpret the piece, without sharing the history and provenance of the images. In the end, what was originally a recording of an experience and artifact of memory is changed into an object entirely unique, creating new memories for those who encounter it.
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The Evoco Project begins with a gathering. Guests are asked to be present and to enjoy the moment and the creation that will take place before them. They’re invited to create memory, to take pleasure in each other’s company, to take photos, to post them online, or in other ways to capture the creation before them and create their memory. Working with performer, I create a large flower arrangement with their body, flora and ropes. I then paint the installation, body and all, with sumi ink. The flora, rope, skin and ink mix to create a verdant olfactory experience. Next, I print portions of the body onto paper, capturing portions of the form, but like memory, never the totality of the form.
Later, I sit with the prints and try to recall the group experience. With gold leaf and paint I embellish what comes forth. The gold leaf adheres like devotional acts of longing to a perfect past.
When each work is delivered to a Chinese or Japanese scroll maker, I ask them to choose the color of the brocade silk. I want them to experience and interpret the piece, without sharing the history and provenance of the images. In the end, what was originally a recording of an experience and artifact of memory is changed into an object entirely unique, creating new memories for those who encounter it.
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