Contact Admin. Since childhood I played on these beaches. One day I felt the sea sense me. In this instant I understood the body and sea conversed in a language I needed to hear. The in situ installations of the precarious are often unannounced, ephemeral performances to which no audience is invited or expected. At other times, these objects are displayed as sculptures in a gallery, assembled and disassembled for each exhibition.
Discards are gathered close to the body: In both practices, time is the critical and transformative threat. The importance of time comes through particularly when one gleaner who finds a massive heap of irregular potatoes, recently dumped by a harvester, describes how they will be left to turn green from moisture and temperature.
Describing the potatoes as perfectly good and edible, he goes into the size and shape criteria which growers and markets adhere to and which produces massive amounts of waste.
At another point in the film, interviewees discuss the butter market, in which tons of butter will be discarded in order to preserve scarcity in the market and preserve prices. This greed tries to extract as much profit as possible from the earth and from people.
Or the way the homonyms echo and produce overtones of meaning: In a similar way, thread and woven cloth gain their strength by positioning tensions. New energy is the product of conflict. Ankoncagua [River], looking at Kon [sea] the two waters see each other an entwined gaze gives birth to fertility.
