Motion Sickness



Install Info

Single channel video, tennis rackets, dad genes

Statement

Artist Laura Conway responds to her father’s diagnosis with a hereditary movement disorder that causes unintended and uncontrollable body movements. Motion Sickness charts both fears and desires about bodies in movement. Here movement is freedom, survival, sex, life, joy, ruin, disorder, doom. The dancers on screen are ecstatic and yet somehow also riotous, possessed even.

Credits

  • Music by Luke Leavitt

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Video Stills

Installation

Pile 1: Father’s obsessively collected Vintage Tennis rackets obtained pre-diagnosis. Possibly
  1. a symptom of mental/physical deterioration or
  2. a haunting lament to his inability to play, to move.
Pile 2 : cDNA: jean(genes)JEANSGENESJEANSGENESJEANSGENESCAGCAG

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