IN THE AGE OF DISEMBODIED COMMUNICATION, THE MEANING AND SIGNIFICANCE AND EXPERIENCE OF THE BODY IS UTTERLY TRANSFORMED AND DISTORTED.

– Eric McLuhan

BODY TECHNIQUE first records the way that desire is mapped onto the subject, and then situates the body as a site of resistance. I began with a list of words (Reasons For Sex A – Z). Mostly personal, some imagined, some based on cultural observation. Then, I used my hands in the ways of umpires or conductors or traffic controllers, to signal the meaning of each word. Finally, with the help of Juri Onuki, I extrapolated a full-body choreography to be performed in tandem with the list of words and gesture. For me, sex becomes a gateway to explore the flow of power through language into my own body. It traces physicality back to the mechanisms of meaning.

Waverly Mandel (b. 1991) is a multi-media artist and web designer living in Los Angeles, California. She holds a degree in Contemporary Art and the Commodity / Web Programming from NYU’s Gallatin school. Her work concerns themes of digital self awareness and sociological understanding of the body. See more at waverlymandel.com

SADAF is an Iranian born, New York City-based visual artist and musician with deep roots in the NYC and Montreal DIY/noise scenes. SADAF’s visuals, sonics, and confrontational performative tactics confound and upend the inward-looking affect inherent to contemporary performance art, simultaneously drawing from and subverting the language of advertising, celebrity, and the gaze. SADAF has presented work at the 9th Berlin Biennale, Lisa Cooley Gallery, 47 Canal, Performa, Issue Project Room, Grace Exhibition Space in NYC; Museum of Fine Arts Montreal, Canadian Centre for Architecture; Nexus Cultural Centre Beijing, SALTS gallery Switzerland, Treize Gallery Paris,. Her work has been featured in Pitchfork, ID magazine, FADER, Editorial Magazine, Mask Magazine, and the Guardian UK.

[Natalia Schwien is a vocalist & producer based out of Brooklyn.] A workshop performance of a piece about processing. Elayo presents “River Songs”.

Molly Lewis is a musical whistler.

Molly Lewis