Live-streamed performance. 30 minutes.
6/18/20.
“Objects which functionally approximated actual cooking utensils were used: nails, hammers, an arrow, ... the cook's apron was a ripped mini skirt with which I covered my hair. As I state in the performance, 'traditionally you need an apron, but it doesn't matter where you put it.'“ - Carolee Schneemann on Americana I Ching Apple Pie
“…Alienation and emancipation are embedded in quotidian rhythms” - Michel Alhadeff-Jones on Henri Lefebvre’s Rhythmanalysis..
“Garbage is the ultimate mixed media” - Mierle Laderman Ukeles
Tiri Kananuruk and Katya Rozanova have spent their time during lockdown exploring what domesticity means to female sound artists. Previously unoccupied with matters of domesticity and its patriarchal connotations, they have found themselves in constant contact with these domestic rituals and efforts.
They have spent the past few months accumulating discarded packaging and transformed these into ‘garbage instruments’, which they will combine with curious and long-forgotten kitchen artefacts, located in the back of recently rediscovered cupboards. Garlic crushers will meet beer cans, cheese grinders encounter cereal boxes, and scouring pads confront pasta packets during this live audiovisual performance. Through the combining of these instruments, Tiri and Katya created a saucepan symphony which invites the audience to both reimagine a new, playful domesticity, and acknowledge our continual dependency on the essential workers who tirelessly make, pack and provide the very objects from which this piece is made. In exploring our connection to these workers, the artists embody an awareness of the social-fabric that sustains us, and invite the audience to do the same.
This project engages critically with how labor is valued and organized during the pandemic through embodying an alternative way to relating to domestic rituals, other social actors such as delivery workers, and our own identity as women performing domestic labor. The work aligns with the ongoing theme in my work of observing one’s role in society and finding emancipatory collective and playful actions that range from refusal to speculation.
Work was included in the digital exhibition 'FEATHER DUSTING / FUTURE LUSTING' by Kleió. To visit or return to the exhibition, click on the link: kleiocollective.co.uk
