Nurit Bar-Shais

Nurit Bar-Shai’s project “Nonetheless I’m Still Here” is an online performance in which participants telematically control a simple scene of a curtain flowing in space. Mechanical motions change the overall scene only slightly, but over time they combine to move the curtain in a way that conveys the natural sway of fabric in the wind. The work examines how real-time, telematic performance, in which objects are controlled collaboratively, can be used to explore tensions between the organic and the inorganic, human intervention and natural spontaneity and the poetics of the mundane and the fleeting in life.