Desire Motor:
A solo performance project.
One Of You Is Fake, 2017
One of You Is Fake is the second solo in Graczyk’s performance series Desire Motor following her inaugural solo Beast. Unfolding as a precariously optimistic look at the future of mankind, Graczyk engages with mundane and exquisitely made objects to question our collective participation in the erosion of the physical, sensual, and material world. Part science lecture, part song, One of You Is Fake accumulates physical movement through examining the process of formation, highlighting shifts between the natural and synthetic. Written and performed by Beth Graczyk with a performance cameo by Lindsay Head. Sound design by Cameron Shafii, visual design elements by Steven Berardelli, and costume design by Asa Brown Thornton.
Beast, 2016
A series of physical micro-worlds emerge and dissolve in Graczyk's inaugural solo, BEAST. Humorous, absurd, and as unstable as a live wire, Graczyk guides us with peculiar and detailed logic through a seemingly empty room. Human interactions and objects become necessary partners in bringing forth the unseen as we follow Graczyk's journey of revelation, rejection and carnal need, vividly etched through the labor of her imagination. BEAST is the first solo for Graczyk's larger body of work: Desire Motor which embodies the dissonances arising between internal wants and external realities.
A solo performance project.
One Of You Is Fake, 2017
One of You Is Fake is the second solo in Graczyk’s performance series Desire Motor following her inaugural solo Beast. Unfolding as a precariously optimistic look at the future of mankind, Graczyk engages with mundane and exquisitely made objects to question our collective participation in the erosion of the physical, sensual, and material world. Part science lecture, part song, One of You Is Fake accumulates physical movement through examining the process of formation, highlighting shifts between the natural and synthetic. Written and performed by Beth Graczyk with a performance cameo by Lindsay Head. Sound design by Cameron Shafii, visual design elements by Steven Berardelli, and costume design by Asa Brown Thornton.
Beast, 2016
A series of physical micro-worlds emerge and dissolve in Graczyk's inaugural solo, BEAST. Humorous, absurd, and as unstable as a live wire, Graczyk guides us with peculiar and detailed logic through a seemingly empty room. Human interactions and objects become necessary partners in bringing forth the unseen as we follow Graczyk's journey of revelation, rejection and carnal need, vividly etched through the labor of her imagination. BEAST is the first solo for Graczyk's larger body of work: Desire Motor which embodies the dissonances arising between internal wants and external realities.
Selected Writing & Source Material for Desire Motor:
From Ocatvio Paz on Duchamp - "Appearance Stripped Bare"
"...her sovereignty, is a attribute of her nature: “basically she is a motor, but before being a motor that transmits her timid power, she is this very timidpower... Her essence, both in chemico-physicological and in the ontological meanings of the word, is desire. This essence is, at one and the same time, a lubricant and her being in itself. Her essence, her being, is desire, and this desire, which cannot be reduced to feelings although it originates in them, is but a desire for being."
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"We walk among shadows and illusions, and nothing that we see, touch, and think has real consistency. Between us and real reality intrudes the horizon...The horizon of our memory."
Photo credit: Effy Grey | Effyography, Video: Mikcas Castaneda, Video Editing: Beth Graczyk
Sound Score for Beast: Spare Death Icon (Jason E Anderson), 'Foreign Relaxation Technique', 2011
From Ocatvio Paz on Duchamp - "Appearance Stripped Bare"
"...her sovereignty, is a attribute of her nature: “basically she is a motor, but before being a motor that transmits her timid power, she is this very timidpower... Her essence, both in chemico-physicological and in the ontological meanings of the word, is desire. This essence is, at one and the same time, a lubricant and her being in itself. Her essence, her being, is desire, and this desire, which cannot be reduced to feelings although it originates in them, is but a desire for being."
….
"We walk among shadows and illusions, and nothing that we see, touch, and think has real consistency. Between us and real reality intrudes the horizon...The horizon of our memory."
Photo credit: Effy Grey | Effyography, Video: Mikcas Castaneda, Video Editing: Beth Graczyk
Sound Score for Beast: Spare Death Icon (Jason E Anderson), 'Foreign Relaxation Technique', 2011