Articulo 123, Mexico City



The videos focus, through their simplicity, on these systems of choreography that play out to no end, unrecognized, unaccounted for, and yet they mark the body with a rhythm inextricable from the happenstance of living.
Blinks and yawns are isolated for their involuntary design as mechanisms that check us into continuity; they beget their own record of annotation as a happening without intention. Through this lens, time itself is recast as a measurement relative only to the dryness of the eyeball and sequential blinking, or the length of activity that results in fatigue and sequential yawning. The otherwise untraceable history of yawns or blinks becomes imprint on the physio-memory of the body. “The Body Keeps the Score” seeks to amplify this. In a pre-choreographic return to annotation, blinks yield scribbles and yawns yield curves, marking up the body as it imperceptibly bears the score, replete with unseen dance.


