Nancy Baker Cahill

I am Never, 2023

Digital video

1920 x 1080 px

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I am Never zeroes in on Lispector’s proclamation, “I want to die with life… I would so like to die of health. Like someone exploding. Eclater is better; j’eclate.” This video includes explosions) and a poetic depiction of dust/particles/abyss with light.

This work is part of “the quivering and lively nerve of the now”, an experimental, immersive video story in three acts, in posthumous conversation with and homage to Brazilian writer Clarice Lispector’s, Agua Viva. This three-part artwork presents an argument for body fluidity and abjection in the face of oppression. A celebration of selfhood, desire, and lust, the work reveals a visceral reflection of living/creating the way Clarice Lispector writes. The artworks revel in abstract carnality to counter this moment of contemporary witch-hunting and politically-sanctioned misogyny. In aggregate, the stories form a poetic love letter to lusty living and an embrace of the digital to tell this story.

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I am Never zeroes in on Lispector’s proclamation, “I want to die with life… I would so like to die of health. Like someone exploding. Eclater is better; j’eclate.” This video includes explosions) and a poetic depiction of dust/particles/abyss with light.

This work is part of “the quivering and lively nerve of the now”, an experimental, immersive video story in three acts, in posthumous conversation with and homage to Brazilian writer Clarice Lispector’s, Agua Viva. This three-part artwork presents an argument for body fluidity and abjection in the face of oppression. A celebration of selfhood, desire, and lust, the work reveals a visceral reflection of living/creating the way Clarice Lispector writes. The artworks revel in abstract carnality to counter this moment of contemporary witch-hunting and politically-sanctioned misogyny. In aggregate, the stories form a poetic love letter to lusty living and an embrace of the digital to tell this story.

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