Conduit

Performance

90 Minutes

2023

Conduitexplores the spirituality & physicality of corporeal time through sculpture, weaving, and performance. At first, the sculptures appearmore bodily, protruding, andvisceral; whereas, the weavings look contained, abstract, and nonrepresentational. Upon further investigation, these initial ideas flip; the weavings become more dynamic as if the positive and negative spaces merge and lift off of the two-dimensional surface, and the sculptures metamorphose into ethereal, spiritual entities. Through these separate bodies of work, Alissa and Janelle strive to express their day-to-day existential ponderings. Like the warp & weft of a weave, they envision time as expanding & contracting. In their collaborative performance they use tape as a temporal and temporary metonym for their individual lived experiences. The tape creates a literal connection between each thought. Each line of tape breaks off or branches from another one. Every action helps to form the next.