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"Fleshy" is an ongoing physical and filmic experiment approaching the body as its own universe. Using video camera framing to magnify, distort, and isolate the body, an environment of textures emerges; a whole universe focusing on the containers we exist in from the inside out. Later layered into installation, the containers of our skin, fat, and viscera envelop the space, creating an abstracted world within worlds.
During her residency at CRAIVE labs at Rensselaer Institute, Searer created an installation from these experiments. Layers of live and recorded video intermingled, projected on the 360 screen, creating a womb-like environment of two and three-dimensional bodies. Manipulating perception, a central theme, with the overlap of visuals and a live feed kinetic map made assumptions of what it was seeing. When viewed in conjunction with the performer, the viewers could see the breakdown between perception and reality. The research "Fleshy" is ongoing and takes place as an extended practice traversing performance, video, installation, and textile experiments. |
