Jessie Closson
Flying Objects
Video (simulation, movement, sound) / 2:40 mins
ABOUT THE WORK
Flying Objects, encompassing a rendered simulation and movement studies, is an initial dissect into the part-body(ies) interactions of flying objects. The project emerged in the the happenstance of part-isolation in a moving pod in space (i.e. flight to nowhere in transient terms) and a curiousity in the relations with surrounding forces (matter). 'Ground maneuvering' dissects the practice of embedded flight maneuvers in one's body memory and maneuvering space in contemporary conditions. When learning how to fly, one is encouraged to ‘chair fly’ on the off-days of flying to acquire a body memory of the sequence of maneuvers. This is the non-chair version.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Jessie Closson is a contextual visual artist, performance artist, filmmaker, and writer, whose practice is comprised of curiosities into the science fictive, unknowns, part-bodies, vital materialisms, overlapping realities, self records, cyborgs, ghostliness, micro-fictions, and other in-betweens. Projects take the form of choreographed movements, performance-films, multichannel video and looped 16mm film installations, radio programming, and interactive programmed objects. Jessie Closson has a Master of Fine Arts from the California Institute of the Arts.