HEALING OF K. (2007)
"Healing of K" is a 10 minute video (with optional installation/performance) based on a box of found taped sessions of a late 1970’s psychic healer and her patient “Kaye”. These tapes are cut-up and assembled into a single monologue in which the voice, played on a monolithic tape machine on a pedestal, addresses the audience in a manner alluding to a cult-like initiation or brainwashing.
The work tries to collide theatricality into unmediated physical response. Initially, it tries to lull the audience into skepticism of this somewhat new agey/hokey material, to then drop them into the physical experience of a vivid color and sound synchronization.
By recontextualizing the found tapes, I not only tried to give this dead record of a private therapy session a new performative life, I also sought to question the situations we submit ourselves to in the name of "healing", "therapy", group affiliation, self-improvement etc. and how these may oppose and co-exist with actual physical sensations.
The work tries to collide theatricality into unmediated physical response. Initially, it tries to lull the audience into skepticism of this somewhat new agey/hokey material, to then drop them into the physical experience of a vivid color and sound synchronization.
By recontextualizing the found tapes, I not only tried to give this dead record of a private therapy session a new performative life, I also sought to question the situations we submit ourselves to in the name of "healing", "therapy", group affiliation, self-improvement etc. and how these may oppose and co-exist with actual physical sensations.
