Eli Cortiñas
Walls
Have
Feelings

Kate Cooper - "Infection Drivers" (2019) explores the body under attack. In this work, a CGI figure struggles to move and breathe in a translucent suit, which takes her body through transmutations of stereotypically masculine and feminine physiques as it inflates and deflates. In a time of increased public surveillance through facial-recognition software and biometric data mining, Cooper’s high-definition world invites us to investigate and perhaps find freedom in the technologies often used to constrain us.

Sondra Perry
The word “scan” itself connotes the sinister appraisal of real-world bodies in everything from racial profiling to the images of black athletes “captured” into video games, subjects that Sondra Perry explores in her video works. In some of these, Perry cultivates a sense of subversion, even deconstruction, of representations of blackness by slipping the camera behind the polygons of a character’s face to reveal the inverse, jittering, truncated anti-skin on the inside. Perhaps digital corporeality, in all its malleability, is a way to visualize the constructedness of biopolitical categories. In Graft and Ash for a Three Monitor Workstation (2016), an avatar resembling a bald Perry explains that her actual body type was not among the defaults available in the animation program. The video plays on three screens installed on an exercise bike, comingling the outer definition of the body’s “fitness” with the policing of the body’s interior health—all in the name of productivity. “How many jobs do you have?” she asks. “Do you work here? How is your body? How does your body feel inside of us?” The avatar’s questions suggest that capitalism—not least, its origins in the enslavement and exploitation of black bodies—is the virus, exhaustion its symptom. But if technology is the medicine, it’s not working.

Yakutian traditional music by
Ayarkhaan.
With the different sounds of voice and of khomus (a metal instrument which fits in the mouth and functions like a jew's harp; it is the national instrument of the Sakha people) Ayarkhaan can at the same time simulate sounds of animals, birds and the nature. Group's performances are inspired by a tradition that has been handed down for centuries but also reflects modern musical thinking.

this music has been healing for me. Although, I didn't really grew up close to my native culture, and for long tried to don't have any connections with it.

there is still something about it, which deeply resonates with me

their songs mostly about nature, and interconnection between all elements on earth. and based on Olonkho - traditional yakutian epic tales

this is the full album -
if someone interested to listen