Graftification

This is a method of interfusing interventions in an assemblage. Think of the horticulture practice of ‘grafting’ where by tissues of plants are joined together to grow together.

 

Aim:

• Undoing boundary-making practices amidst bodies of matter, bridging different temporalities and registers of ontology of interventions.

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• To join, compose and layer the space to create routes or paths of relation for participation.

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• Confluence of sensuality and cartography—mapping the space through tactile dialogue with bodies.

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• To de-centre the human gaze and bodies

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Method:

• Compose the interventions as interconnected yet independent. Each intervention has its own temporality, affect and agency yet it can connect to another in implicit or explicit ways.(Eg. the audience could grate the beetroot and eat it or leave it or juice it in another intervention where white cloth is dyed with the juice which then enters the video installation by hanging it on a string. This has three interventions that exist independently yet are interconnected.)

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• Participatory interventions to undo the default spectatorship mode of audience. Through material embodiment, the human performer is decentred and other bodies become equally exciting to see, touch, taste and relate with.