“My thirst for you will never end, but I still want to destroy you.”
This performance is a metaphor for society’s current relationship to plastic — a passionate love-hate relationship. Plastic is a convenient and ingenious way for us to sate our needs of hygeine, fast/disposable lifestyle, and consumer fetish — (a packaged product alluringly invites us to undress it after purchase). However we then have to deal with the reality of it never going away / never disintegrating. Its promise of transience and disposability is a lie. Its promise of a cheap and easy one night stand is a lie.
I first encountered this piece at HCMF in 2017 when Tim Cape performed it himself during a Bastard Assignments concert. Over the course of an email correspondence, I convinced Tim to make a score for the piece, and went about collecting plastic to create my version of the bed sequence for the background video. I first performed it at a solo recital, titled ‘Finding the Abyss: (post)Percussion Recital’, in Phipps Hall Huddersfield in June 2018. I’ve since performed it at the Darmstadt Internationale Ferienkurse für Neue Musik and at Wakushoppu in Prague’s Punctum.
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