MUSCLE MEMORY

STATEMENT

This body of work, entitled “Muscle Memory,” is a meditation on the significance of labor and the body in a time increasingly shaped by automation and post-biological ideals. Composed of sculptures and installation work, these pieces represent an extension of my own body, detached from myself. By deconstructing and reassembling my own form, the work poses questions about autonomy, identity, and the significance of the body in the digital age. Through repetitive processes and actions, I think of my labor in creating this work as a form of reclamation over the body and an act of resistance against how information technology shapes identity. While the work is not directly performative, I consider the labor embedded in the making of these works as a kind of quiet performance.

This project is funded in part by the South Carolina Arts Commission which receives support from the National Endowment for the Arts.