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Read excerpts

h o r i z o n t a l durational reading of 'Detouched' in its entirety, in depth-charged, high-vis, post-rave suspension by beached bodies waiting for the dip...

Sections of 'Skinned' read by soft bodies r o l l i n g over hard concrete, trying hard to gain self-locomotion,
awkwardly baby-calfing up to extra human, while alloyed crustaceans eat on repeat

Part of ‘The Shape Left By The Body’
at The Sunday Painter, London [7 July 2018]

Part of 'This is the Gallery and the Gallery is Many Things', Eastside Projects, Birmingham
[2 November 2018]

H o r i z o n t a l
PPE-clad readings
to launch 'Skinned' and 'Detouched' at Large Glass, London [26 April 2018]

LISTEN

In DETOUCH, vocal material becomes the permanently rolling surface of a tank of industrial grade PVC. The narrative of a text - written by Boyd to creatively document the production process of the sculpture Mechanoreceptor, Icicles [red, red] [triple spring, triple strip] by Channer - is formed into a single, breathless moment. Two racing, machinic voices digitally fray and stretch, their subjectivities curdled, never pausing for the pleasure of anticipation or to re-consider pain. The materiality of the red, liquid plastic (which coats the 210 s t r e t c h e d and jigged aluminium fingers that comprise the sculpture) becomes a portal that can be pushed and dipped into - suggestive of a new, super-unreal life incubated in synthetic plasma. The fraying digits and opiate voices speed headily through complexities of authorship, worldly creation, the history of fingers and tangibility, and the idea of losing touch - of losing your grip.

Still from atmospheric, captioned video created of 'DETOUCH' for the SHELL LIKE remote communal listening event 'Our Fuming Lips Make A New Mirage' [2020]