Lock Unlock 8 Performance  Art Project
"Times Mirror is both true and false"

I, as a labourer in this performance is a mere reflection of a machine which works on command for specific purpose. In now times, a labourer has to become almost like a machine for its survival. In doing so, he has become a machine but born as a man he naturally starts finding true image of his lost identity.

In here, machine is the object, and man is the reflection.

Rajesh Trilokiya, INDIA

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Lock Unlock 8 Performance  Art Project
"Times Mirror is both true and false"

I am …light a paradoxical act (reflection on performance) 

I am light or trying to become is paradoxical act which I encounter yesterday It was an attempt to get lost in light space the effect amplified with blue light of TV set which is off since two months and glittering background. The act in which I am on and off in the act itself which was with scroll of images from past and I was trying to cover up under red transparent sheet I idea of small mirror face in my mouth and then on my eyes  just like trying to reflect the light from the mirror like Rene Magritte’s painting. 

An attempt to see myself as life interrupted with reality of present there are two ways of seeing black hole when black hole becomes too dense it becomes white and it is weaker and it through out what ever come in contact unlike black hole which attracts all matters and they disappear in dark. It is long way to reach that point this is exercises an attempt to become light 

I am …..Light can be interpreted in two ways the light is light and other light is weightless ness …. Intercepted by conscious presence in space when you become aware of presence and unable to enter the character of light intercepted by reality... a paradox.

Dimple Shah, INDIA

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Lock Unlock 6 Performance Art Project
"Liquid Body"

Body is the body of isolation

Body of uncertainty, as certainty can only relate to the ‘now’ and further then body must relate to the past, as it contains a history of experiences, son it enters the state of transcendence for there is no sense to recycle mainstream news. The work contains the a body of rituals for setting up and the appropriation of the material. For most of human history ‘immediacy of presence’ overlapped with potential and feasible ‘immediacy of action’.

From that painful, perhaps unbearable realization of impotence and numbness, we are tempted to search for shelter. The temptation to render ‘the difficult to deal with’ into ‘the unreachable’ is a constant, and steadily rising with the fear of the unknown.

The more detachment can be made accessible to ourselves from our immediate surroundings, the more we rely on the surveillance of the environment. The images and Self-images become material proof of existence or an apparent objective reality. Homes exist to protect their inhabitants, not to integrate people with other communities. At numerous borders of hope, land, home and ‘freedom’ the segmented networks, ethnically based, rely on their identity as the most valuable resource to defend their interests, and ultimately their own personal being.

The existential pressures foresee less involvement as they reach for safety ideals not allowing concerns for contaminated elements.

The shift of personal interests and concerns makes the action of investing into the impurity less conscious, multiplying and defiling the crucial conditions of natural states. 

A spring that never yet grew stale - 

Intervention with the taste buds of unspoiled 

Feelings, deranged the time for the aqueous liquids

Streaming the yes and moisten the tongue

Drenched into what is left -

Contaminated colors, mutations of black and white,

Ripened under sheets of polystyrene 

Natural states are long lost in renditions of

Unaccountable Languages and the un-intentional

Dampness of pure element.

Dagmar I. Glausnitzer - Smith, GERMANY

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Lock Unlock ó Performance Art Project
"Liquid Body"

Invitado por Dagmar I. Glausnitzer-Smith al evento simultáneo de performance en vivo Lock Unlock sesión número seis, donde nueve artistas, al mismo tiempo, estaríamos haciendo una acción. Antes de ese momento ya había vivido algo similar, en esa ocasión yo me convertía en una estatua  performática mientras espectadores nos observaban, me sentí raramente usado y desechado. Ahora parecía darse otro escenario, uno en la que los ojos, de quienes verían posteriormente el video, dispersarían su atención en nueve trabajos durante quince minutos.

El punto en la que convergerían nuestras intenciones era el Agua y el Cuerpo, temas que me llegaban muy a tono a lo que en mi intimidad y reflexiones estaba  llevando de la calle a mi casa en esos días. Ahora surgían las preguntas ¿cómo podría resolver un performance con estas referencias: quince minutos, el tema, la simultaneidad y lo online? Me vi seducido y emocionado por responder, se abría un candado [UNLOCK] a un sendero gozoso y de poca exploración. Mi cuerpo sabía que era el momento de liberar las aves de mi cabeza en un amoroso y tangible cielo infinito virtual, ahí podía encontrar respuestas.

PERFORMER PLANEANDO. PERFORMER CONSIDERANDO A LOS OTROS PERFORMERS. PERFORMER EN SILENCIO. PERFORMER DURANTE QUINCE MINUTOS. PERFORMER EN LIBERTAD. PERFORMER DEPOSITANDO EL TEMA EN EL CUERPO DE SÍ MISMO. PERFORMER TODAVÍA NERVIOSO POR LA VIRTUALIDAD. PERFORMER EN UNA MESA DE JUEGO. PERFORMER DICHOSO. 

EL resultado final: nueve pantallas bien alineadas con nueve variados movimientos de energía que emanaban colores, formas e increíblemente olores, nueve intenciones personales, nueve cuerpos abordando el agua y así mismos, ocho profundos silencios y un poderoso y ligero sonido, nueve caminos de creación, nueve fragmentos de un vivo árbol que posibilita una lectura visual sin límites, nueve ventanas fractales que cada vez que te atrevías a ver, había más. 

Las nuevas respuestas ahora creaban emergentes preguntas que empujaban locamente a lo experimentado y la curiosidad se unía una vez más al proceso. 

Toda historia tiene un fin y fue el momento de cerrar el baúl [LOCK], acaricio el bolsillo de mi pantalón con la llave dentro.

Angel Alado, MEXICO, Guest Artist, Julio 2020

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Lock Unlock 6 Performance Art Project
"Liquid Body"

The liquid body is always reflected in positive in the body in terms of the human body as well as the body as land. In my context, the overflooded body (context of Assam) has lots of conflicts that are creating terror in the landscape every monsoon. With this conflict try to understand the liquid body as sanity through my action. The abstraction emerges through the action and that leads to understanding this conflict is my primal concern and understand the psychological effect.

Anupam Saikia.

Delhi / Assam. INDIA

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Lock Unlock 6 Performance Art Project
"Liquid Body"

My body is liquid. 

My body needs liquid. 

My body comes into contact with liquid. 

My body drinks liquid. 

The difference between the tangibility of the body and the ever-moving presence of liquid comes into conflict, producing a form of knowledge and experience. 

The shadow of my body enters and is rained upon.

Beau Coleman, CANADA
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Lock Unlock 7 Performance Art Project 
"RASA"

Eternalizing the Essence of Revelation

Eternalizing the Essence of Revelation

Yellow the colour of surprise…..

How one can internalize this element……. 

One steps in the world of yellow tints 

The tints which can eternalize in self …

I followed the ritual of eternalizing step by step …

first, it starts from the surface of my body then I drank the Nectar which can transcend your body.

Then came eating the fruit…. The Prasad of nature...

 then I transform my surrounding by performing the role of a goddess who performs a dual role of a lover looking for lost soul and heart to self and then emerging with power of gold which is the real colour of yellow which help you transcend oneself to higher but then there is some pain in the process the turmeric burnt my skin ….the nectar was strong the struggle with yellow rope was to untangle the questions of self like what one is and what one can become the part which is unknown the path of spiritualism …the path to eternity… 

A journey of the entangled soul….a search to know the ultimate truth…

And to experience the power of wonderment... This just starts long way to go…

Dimple Shah, INDIA

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Lock Unlock 7 Performance Art Project
"RASA"

Rasa Theory and reflections

To recollect emotional states of being during the performances is impossible, though in retrospect or in the view of the concept during the planning process, certain human behavioral assumptions on the emotional impact can be considered.

Facial gestures or facial expressions can be noted in the psycho-social context however with that particular intention in mind for a performance art situation, the action becomes the temptation of ‘acting’/ re-acting, role expression and the assumption will become profane and result in a literal account.

The challenge is the unpredictability of involving objects, which may be fragile or destined to change.

If there is a rasa – surprise – as a subsection of the emotional aspect of my own being, then this is the premise line, which I conceptually chose for this suggested idea.

Dagmar I. Glausnitzer - Smith, GERMANY

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Lock Unlock 10 Performance Art Project
"Body a potential site"

1. Culture : In UP Lucknow city (North India) and around, people don't use " I " but " We " . 

2. Violence : What we call violence may be aesthetic practice to others and vice versa. 

3. Violence as Non-violence binary , how to operate one without other ? ( A term non -cruel does exist but that is useless again in Performance art ). What is the location and context of violence? Who is oppresser and who is oppressed ? Performance art is a spring boar of transformation and healing, departure and invention of new destinations. 

4. Ritual : in Performance art this term has significantly different from the way it is understood in religion or cultural practices. 

5. Liminal: To cross the threshold, we do enter into a composition of our respective body and materials around a layer of unpridictablity defines the act in the time flow there after..... . Oscillation between what we do consciously and what we don't plan during the act/ritual is the crux of doing Performance. 

6. There will be an interpretation to an act at visible level. Artists themselves talking about their own work may be just one interpretation, loose even, that is ok. 

7. A simultaneity of geometric lines and empirical/visceral of the body will enable us to begin surveying the body like we survey a piece of land . Any idea of real won't be one without the other. 

8. Cognitively we might enter Artaud's concept of BWO ( body without organs) which is not available to logicallity of 2+2 = 4 but 5. A dissolution of the idea of face and it's trap of representation is possible at the receding horizon of Performance art, which is becoming..

Inder Salim, INDIA

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Lock Unlock 8 Performance Art Project  
"Times Mirror is both true and false"

Reflection on Inder Salim's concept note, 31.08.2020

Title: sunken words/images in recess

Work: Image, music, text relation

"Can one say, whatever disappears at the horizon returns back to the atmosphere of our conscious mind as we desire? 

Certainly not. (E. Kant's a-priori: reality beyond experiences and references)"

Dagmar says: certainly yes! 

Can one say, whatever disappears at the horizon returns back to the atmosphere of our conscious mind as we desire?

My answer is yes. It has been pre-thought, disappearance formulated, therefore on that layer retrievable by the mind who thought it in the first place. It has become a literary/philosophical quest.

Thus the desire is man’s profound longing in order to avoid the engagement with ‘presence’ and/or nowness. Such longing which is equal to the projection of ‘Self’ whilst looking into the mirror. 

Similar to Magritte’s painting loosing sight, where he questions the human condition of seeing, projection and the painting as mimesis. (that kind of imitative representation of the ‘real’ world when the need for picture and image i.e. projection is called for) .

The desire to represent the ideal and the anxiety that this has historically aroused. Roland Barthes is trying to recapture what seems to have gone underground in repressed results of the composed myths are, so to speak, fundamental cultural anxieties. (Mansfield’s cultural unconscious) 

And the projection is not less associated with the constructed set of expectations which claims multiple achievements based on the psychological need for recognition.

After discussion thought: pandemic forces to move to the camera, how to interrupt the camera/mirror function, intentional disruption. 

It is a camera/flat image versus space/body issue?!

Get involved with the dysfunction of the camera eye?  Alleviate the mirror control mechanism.

The False Mirror (1928) is a surrealist oil painting by René Magritte that depicts a human eye framing a cloudy, blue sky. In the depiction of the eye in the painting, the clouds take the place normally occupied by the iris.
The painting's original French title is Le faux miroir.

Dagmar I. Glausnitzer - Smith, GERMANY

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Lock Unlock 11 Performance Art Project
“Glimpses behind Isolation…”

Purged Dimension

The project vertical purge is inspired by the location-scape of the body within a restricted area. In the presence of the radical signs of the Corona Pandemic, consequences and emotional effect become transparent on a daily basis. 

The experience of thinking - the Purge - has lead my situation towards the desire for doubt and how less the control of the will influences the performative action. The word – purge derives from its Latin roots as the analogy to – purification.

The Purge has become a process of photography, video and drawings. It continues until the vertical purge dissolves in the horizontality of inner landscape and image associations.

Purged Dimension is the 7th Performance being realised during these times of the global pandemic with assessments of strangeness/unfamiliarity in the evaluation of private space, intimate/personal presence and the absences of a physical being in live presentations.

In the situation of dimensionality, I am interested to experiment with the ideas of visual projection. Dissecting the image into layers from the two dimensionality into further projected apparent and non-visual coordinates. It cannot delude the aspects of perception.

However questions arise about the margins of image. Now, I am between the virtual image and the real life situation, which I stay continuously also part of. Perhaps this is encapsulated in the domains of context.

Dagmar I. Glausnitzer - Smith, GERMANY

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Lock Unlock 11 Performance Art Project
Part One

Probability of arrival in performance art : for LOCK\UNLOCK PERFORMANCE ART PROJECT

In performance art, we may articulate, time and again, that doing performance is one thing and the commentary/documentation of the very performance art action is another. They are a two aspects, like parallel lines without any necessity or obligation to walk hand in hand for ever. A point comes which provides the autonomy to both, inevitably. Yet, in higher mathematics, as Einstein demonstrated with ‘space-time curvature’, parallel lines do meet if we see how time’s linear progression ultimately bends somewhere. This bending at a reasonable distance away from our conscious presence, is perhaps similar to how we logically chase the understanding of Performance art and return back to playing tennis with the net down, entering the inner-outer magma of the term – consciousness -. There has to be some collapse of predictable forms and concepts that contributes to a sudden bending to let something new erupt afresh, which is then our becoming…In bending is becoming.

‘Barrycentric coordinate system’ explains that there is no static point in our solar system even, let alone the Multiverse . A constant oscillation between sun and planets in our solar system does not give us any exact point to mark with pencil on paper that Sun is exactly here. For example, sun and Jupiter

Revolve around each other if one looks closely.

Inder Salim INDIA

to be continued       ---------------->

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Lock Unlock 11 Performance Art Project
Part One

continued

In a sense we always oscillate between the experimental, the theoretical or the mathematical or the axiomatic or the fantastical even, to imagine the reality. ‘Quantum Mechanical view of Reality’

presents itself like a mixture of real-unreal. To arrive , multiplicity is a useful term to think how we inevitably pass through tautological imperatives at every level while we deal with facticity of events, traces and inferences around. Yes, we do have a choice to think that reality is shaped like this or that, but simultaneously it is impossible to impose our will on reality.

“Underneath all reasons lies delirium “ Deleuze takes us quickly under the skin of all

Assumptions and forces to put a full stop to any philosophical concreteness , and compensates that with ideas of praxis…

In ‘Three Body Problem’, the Chinese sifi Novel writer, Lui Cixin demonstrates how mixing of fiction and scientific ideas lands up the characters to a point of no return. They spiral in time which is like multifold of the unfolding in a very bizarre manner. Covid19 did something similar to our respective ideas of the real , and we are perhaps responding to the situation without actually thinking about the genesis of the problem. We simple move…

Nobel winner Richard Fyenman explains in the link below, but here I try to simplify to our own little use : “Probability is how likely something is about to happen. Whenever we are unsure about the outcome of an event or situation, about the probabilities of a certain outcome” .

Probability understood as the number of ways of achieving success. The total number of possible outcomes, for example, the probability of flipping a coin and it being heads is ONE DIVIDEID BY HALF . Because there is one way of getting a head and the total number of possible outcomes is TWO

(a head or tail). P (heads) = ONE BY HALF. A probability of ZERO indicates that there is no chance that a particular event will occur, whereas a probability of one indicates that an event is certain to occur. This is also called Positive Probability.

But how in Negative probability like we have negative money? Nobel prize winner,

American Physicist, Richard Feynman says, that there is Negative Probability as much as

Positive probability.

What if we toss a photon ( light particle ) instead of a coin in the air. Between the twin

properties of particle and wave, the behavior of photon is similar to that of electron.

To cut short : Probability of arrival : during a performance, we tend to feel that it is heading towards some finish. Like light from sun, which arrives at earth, a performance is illumination for us to see. The EIGHT odd minute duration is the time, which it takes, and the photons indeed travel with their entire duel property of particle and wave thing. ( word THING is no-existent as Deleuze says, both at the level of language and percept, yet we use to like we imagine reality through drawings etc. )

So, whenever we look into the sky during daylight, for example, we see something and nothing at the same time. Actually one half of the reality as ever, yet that is all which is available to the

naked eye.

Quickly we go to Performance Art. What do we see of a video of a performance art piece ?

Deleuze argues, “The modern work of art has no problem of meaning, it has only a problem

of use. Does the image movement, ( film ) we are watching exist independently from

ourselves as spectators, and if not, does it register in our retina, in our brains, and in our

body’s nervous system ?
We can no longer talk about the present, past and future as successive movements, but a coexistence of present past and future.

Yet, we do have a virtuality in front of us.

Inder Salim, INDIA

15-01-2021