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Infinity minus Infinity

2019

HD Video by The Otolith Group

Credits: Original Music, Sound Design and Sound Mix



Infinity minus Infinity draws on several inspirations: the modernist verse of the Jamaican poet Una Marson, the alluvial invocations of the Martiniquian philosopher and poet Edouard Glissant, the black feminist poetics of the Brazilian philosopher Denise Ferreira da Silva and the racial formation of geology theorised by British geographer Kathryn Yusoff to dramatise an audiovisual experiment in choreopoetics.

Infinity minus Infinity, brings together dance, performance, music, recital and digital animation to compose a transhistorical zone in which the unsayable debts of racial capitalism cannot be separated from the ongoing crimes of capitalogenic climate catastrophe. The work enacts the durational timelines of past distress, present duress and future dread through the assembly of a chorus of trans temporal deities whose utterances, expressions, gestures and movements personify the compounded, accumulated, irreparable times and spaces of the hostile environment.

Commissioned by Sharjah Architecture Triennial.

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