I make performance, installation, videos and scripts to investigate how power relations are produced and extend in society deeply affecting subjective narratives.
In Spite of Everything - The project is inspired by an encounter with a scene from the video Physics of Love (1998) by Diane Bonder. In this scene, a portrait photograph of the artist’s mother is spat upon. Together with Marta Hryniuk, David decided to recreate the scene as a meditation on the visceral states of the body, unresolved personal relationships and the disruption of the familiar. The gestures and moments that are collected invite us to lean in closer, to pay attention to the detail, the subtle, and the unsaid.
In Spite of Everything - In Spite of Everything traces gestures of refusal and discontent through the act of spitting. Through this codified bodily gesture, David examines personal and collective histories that are entangled with themes of gender, capitalism and patriarchy. Reflecting on spitting becomes an exploration of magic, pleasure, intimacy, contagion, and vulnerability in relation to the body. Thus, spitting is seen not only as a refusal, but also as a connector to other forms and ways of being.
Wild Animal - Part of In Spite of Everything at an other world, Rotterdam
Felt, 2023
Dimension variable
Siren Song - 2023
Video~13 min. Singer: Janne Kosmos Camera: Larisa David, Marta Hryniuk Sound: Nick Thomas Composer: Janne Piksen
Siren Song - 2023
Video~13 min.
Singer: Janne Kosmos
Camera: Larisa David, Marta Hryniuk
Sound: Nick Thomas
Composer: Janne Piksen
Siren Song positions a new orientation which comes out of waiting. Waiting is situated as an active moment and an interval where one can exit chronological time. Waiting therefore can invite wakefulness towards new opportunities to come. With it, new visions and orientations become possible, as the future is not what comes after the present, but it is already in constant conversation with the present.
A WATCHED POT NEVER BOILS - (2021-2022)
Performance, 16min.
Performed by Romana Widenková
Photo by Tereza Havlínková
A Year Without A Summer - 2021 WET Sound Installation, 50 min. With Raluca Croitoru, Pilar Mata Dupont and Tracy Hanna Composer Janne Piksen Photos by Sophie Bates and Marta Hryniuk
A Year Without A Summer - Sound Installation, 50min.
With Raluca Croitoru, Pilar Mata Dupont and Tracy Hanna
Composer Janne Piksen
Photos by Sophie Bates and Marta Hryniuk
Waiting Tenses - 2020
Waiting Tenses - 2020
