Unctuous Between Fingers, 2019
Harmonic Anatomies / Wet Mouths, 2019
Tentacular Thinking, 2018
A cap, like water, transparent, fluid yet with definite body, 2017-18
The Stones talk to her, 2017
Un Waive Edge Ground, 2015
On Frottage (Part I), 2015
Add Utter Rut, 2015
An Eye, An Arch, A Bridge, 2014
Frottage with IHF and JC, 2014
It Has Been Found Again, 2014
Practice, 2013
As Furniture, As Discipline, 2013
Word Chords, 2013
Ear Training/ Rhythm / Notation, 2013
Tuning Up, 2013
Last Orders..., 2012
Untitled (Portraits), 2011
Welcome Drinks, 2011
Toast, 2010
On Frottage (Part II), 2015
Performance and installation: fabric frottage panels, back projection, spoken text, movement.
On Frottage is an ongoing body of work exploring the medium of frottage — as a means of artistic production, a sexual act and the conceptual links that this process might have to other practices, objects and times.
A spoken text weaves together notions of overlay, translation and contacting surfaces using theoretical frameworks borrowed from a number of female writers, including Julia Kristeva, Christine Brooke-Rose, Lucy Lippard and Gertrude Stein.
A female figure paces the space — weaving between large fabric frottage panels. The body and fabric are considered moving layers, different juxtapositions and relationships occur between the surface of the body, text and frottage panels. Small choreographic gestures - a pelvic rotation or hip shift interrupt the rhythmic walking and the body is pressed or rubbed against the fabric. Concrete poems are are back-projected onto one of the panels, the letters obscured or momentarily interrupted by the body moving behind the fabric, the shadow of fingers tracing the edges of words.
Photographs by Kaste Šeškevičiuūtė