A performance video and text
Featured in Sleeping Weazel’s Cyber Art Gallery along with an interview (Fall 2015)
Production Year: 2013
The Brilliance of This Moment
Never Leaves[1]
An amateur camerawoman plays with the camera and with her presence.
A new house is being remodeled next door –
Tiles on the roof are replaced and also the boards on the outside of walls
To give builders an occasion to be there at this time
At any time
As alibi
So that the world will think that they’re there
The sound they make
Never leaves
Never rests
Never stops
It’s never staying
It’s there for the arrival and the receipt of building materials
So that there can be arrival and receipt
It’s all over again
A builder
Enduring,
Undergoing lack of repose,
Keeping watch –
Never leaves at any time
To be at home everywhere
Means to be at once and at all times there and have an alibi
Never leaves
At any time
The same, the same:
Rebuilding one’s home.
Rhythm is discovered,
In my body
So that I can now fall into the leaves
At this moment, here, my life, still…
[1] Indebted to Alain Robbe-Grillet, among others, and of course also to Martin Heidegger.
Ioana B. Jucan 