The Thinnest Slice, taking it’s title from a talk by Professor Karen Barad on time in lecture ‘Troubiling Time/s Undoing the Future’. The Thinnest Slice combines moving image, audio, text and stills shot on the artists’ basic Android mobile. The montage aesthetic explores sensory experience and disorientation of being within physical and digital spaces during lockdown - Covid 19.
It grapples with articulating the intimacy of micro moments experienced in dialogue with the artist’s surroundings captured through the interface of the screen. Scale and measurable lateral time became distorted, through the low-fi camera, moments of heightened connection and disconnection with self and surroundings are savoured within the backdrop of a global phenomena.
The digital visuals are interwoven with an audio soundscape from multiple recordings, readings, and texts that document touch as an amalgamation of micro moments where sensory perception became attuned to the textural interfaces surrounding her.
The orchestra of a bee flying past, a tiny insect crawling across a chair, two cats caught in a standoff, were timestamps. Moments of intra-activity as all of us were unknowing agents in an exchange of intimacy, where now is the thinnest slice.
