I I I (something flat, something cosmic, something endless) (2021) was a durational performance and soundscape amplified in Bluecoat’s garden.
SERAFINE1369 presented a work set to both live and recorded text, composed from planetary movements, dream records and reflections on heartache from 2020-21.
The performance took place throughout the day of 20th June in Bluecoat’s garden as part of Liverpool Biennial’s Live Weekend.
SERAFINE1369 writes:
"I I I (something flat, something cosmic, something endless) is a work made in a moment when all that there was, was this body and its dreams, nightmares, cycles and needs, its sensations and wanting.
I went mining. I haunt this work. I is a collection of already historical circumstances, remembered and un-remembered. I is a crowd. I is a trick of the light.
A durational performance inducing a state of expansiveness and detachment from the pressure to create - or be formed by - meaning through conventional narrative arcs. Its duration witnesses / tracks the rhythmic cycles, the peaks and troughs of an endocrine system beyond the arc of climax. The work situates a research and obsession with the unit of ‘one minute’ - asking whether we can transform the stuff of time or whether it transforms us. Considering the invention of colonial time and agency, the ways we inhabit its units of fixed endless measurement, even as this Time slips out of relation to the celestial bodies that have long been its anchor and justification.
Working with live and recorded text written over the last year from dreams and heartache and reflection - a wasteland of feeling - I I I (something flat, something cosmic, something endless) is a wide and flat landscape as score for performance. A reading, a listening, a movement."
Commissioned by Liverpool Biennial. Image by Katarzyna Perlak.