Glitch.mirror (2020)
Jessica Laraine Williams is an artist, writer and researcher. Her current projects interrogate posthuman methods and critical identity practices in art. Chelsea Coon is a performance artist and writer whose performances utilise endurance to reconsider limits of the body through its various orientations to space and time.
Working with aesthetics of excess and multiplicity presented online, Chelsea and Jess conceived of this project from a position of humour in attempts to grasp the unknowns of this moment, despite which there is the human desire to connect and make meaning. Amidst sustained physical separation and uncertainty, the artists critically reflect on the way in which popular trends of ‘twinning’ extend to philosophical notions of becoming, located through the digitally-mediated moment of glitch. Here, the artists enact two bodies mirroring each other towards collapse into one—the metaphorical extensions of which speaks to a collective body and the reciprocal desire to see extensions of the matter of ourselves in others.
Jessica Laraine Williams is an artist, writer and researcher. Her current projects interrogate posthuman methods and critical identity practices in art. Chelsea Coon is a performance artist and writer whose performances utilise endurance to reconsider limits of the body through its various orientations to space and time.
Working with aesthetics of excess and multiplicity presented online, Chelsea and Jess conceived of this project from a position of humour in attempts to grasp the unknowns of this moment, despite which there is the human desire to connect and make meaning. Amidst sustained physical separation and uncertainty, the artists critically reflect on the way in which popular trends of ‘twinning’ extend to philosophical notions of becoming, located through the digitally-mediated moment of glitch. Here, the artists enact two bodies mirroring each other towards collapse into one—the metaphorical extensions of which speaks to a collective body and the reciprocal desire to see extensions of the matter of ourselves in others.
Image above: Chelsea Coon and Jessica Laraine Williams, glitch.mirror: composite 1 (2020), Digital performance (still with post-production). Colour. Sound. Courtesy of the artists.
Next page: Chelsea Coon and Jessica Laraine Williams, glitch.mirror (2020), Digital performance (stills with emergent digital artifacts, video).Colour. Sound. Courtesy of the artists.
Next page: Chelsea Coon and Jessica Laraine Williams, glitch.mirror (2020), Digital performance (stills with emergent digital artifacts, video).Colour. Sound. Courtesy of the artists.