Brain Chorus
The video performance Brain Chorus mimes and explores the human journey, from birth into making connection, migration and then, finally, death. We navigate our lives in near chaos, constructing codes to turn nonsense into sense, finding and losing connection, hoping then aging then dying (before starting over, reborn into something else). The value of life is brought into sharp focus in this piece in appreciating death in its periphery. Original electronic score by Bakläxa.
On Saturday, Feb 18, 2023, Ro2 Art in Dallas hosted an international artist talk between Yuni Lee and Kathryn Gohmert in conjunction with EIGENHEIM: Weimar/Berlin. The event began with this performance, followed by a joint discussion of Lee and Gohmert's work and practice. The livestreamed performance also marked the international finissage of Gohmert's FUTURA CEREBRA solo show at Galerie EIGENHEIM Weimar on February 18, 2023.
Brain Chorus was first performed in the context of the FUTURA CEREBRA solo exhibition on January 21, 2023 to celebrate the upcoming Chinese New Year of the Rabbit at EIGENHEIM Weimar.
I’m very grateful to the A*STAR Microscopy Platform (AMP) and the AMP staff for their research and generosity of letting me use this footage. AMP is funded by Singapore’s Agency for Science, Technology & Research (A*STAR) through core funds and under the HBMS IAF-PP Project (H1701a0004) and through the National Research Foundation Singapore under its Shared Infrastructure Support grant for SingaScope – a Singapore-wide microscopy infrastructure network (NRF2017_SISFP10). This video also contains footage of neurons captured by Leticia Peris. Special thanks as well to Johannes Heller for his technical support.