Hand to Mouth is a non•disciplinary project by sentient and inanimate collaborators invested in the labor of survival. Founded by visual artist Deville Cohen it integrates Cohen’s studio and performance practices through a process of collaboration with other artists and institutions. Objects and gadgets are not just instruments or props in the work. They are equal partners, inanimate collaborators, forming a coalition with human performers.
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DE-SUICIDE
PS122 GALLERY
October 21–November 21, 2021
150 First Avenue New York, NY 10009
PS122 Gallery presents DE-SUICIDE, a new multichannel video installation and sculptural environment by Hand to Mouth. The video and objects in the installation are the result of a yearlong process of workshops with dancers Tushrik Fredericks (Johannesburg/NY, Margaux Marielle-Trehoüart (Berlin), Laura K. Nicoll (NY), and Effie Bowen (NY); musician JD Samson (NY); guest dramaturgs Patricia Hernandez (NY) and Bronwyn Lace (Johannesburg/Vienna); and partnerships with Summer Guthery of JOAN Los Angeles and Ian Cofre of PS122 Gallery.
DE-SUICIDE @ PS122 Gallery
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To DE-SUICIDE is to become with, rather than following our settler-colonial histories to claim ownership of resources, people, and land. DE-SUICIDE is local, manifested through repetition of singular gestures which are performed until it leaks into the abyss of soil. It removes the option to own, to master, to control, and allows the emergence of other relationships, or, at the very least, it brings to the fore the relationships that may have existed before the master's hand took hold. With each move, we view the human as another node within the network and learn to live alongside difference. In order to do this, we remove ourselves from the center.
99.999999999% of relations in the cosmos are not human related.
Self-care is cute,
and selfish,
Do you care for something else?
Thanks to residency support from KinoSaito we wee able to make a live performance version of DE-SUICIDE
We shared our work in some informal showings on
DE-SUICIDE @ Kinosaito
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DE-SUICIDE @ Kinosaito 〰️
SITE
full moon midnight of October 1, 2020
Glue only knows eternity and it takes forever to dry.
Once dry, eternity ends
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BACKSTAGE
Full moon midnight of September 2, 2020
Nobody cares, until somebody does, and then it's their problem
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