Flip Sides, 2013

Performance / Duration: 50 minutes

Considering how our lives are largely driven by notions of productivity, worth and purpose, in Flip Sides I concentrate on things that have been rendered marginal and useless. My team and I make lists of everything that appears to no longer fulfil its' initial function. Our lists include a sizeable range – from broken objects to abandoned cities, from expiration dates to unreciprocated smiles, from minor gestures to redundant feelings – we try to be thorough.

For the presentation we select thirty four lists. As their numerous entries are methodically introduced, they begin to resonate in unexpected manners. The discarded enters a parallel archive of memory, remains and significances.

Some featured list categories:

Places I never go to anymore

Adjectives describing a person sitting diagonally from me in the train

A list of songs I listened to in June 2004

Obsolete thoughts 1

Failed efforts to attract attention

People I feel emotionally involved with who I don’t think feel the same for me

Sounds I unintentionally made during the last 5 minutes of a love story

Things within hand reach of my bed

Traces a visitor left in my house on January 22nd 2013

Facial expressions I was not aware of at the time

Pains that didn’t last

Obsolete thoughts 2

Some examples of unrealized potential

Failed compliments

Obstacles I may encounter when trying to get from A to B