Embodied Multi{(Body; Space; Time; Performance;)} Marlot Meyer (2020)

idea of collaboration. To share and
to be fearless of ‘losing’ my identity
as an individual in the process.
My work has a relation to the
imaginary. You can conceive
imaginings of something, or have
a completely fictional dream
with no relation to reality and it
will only exist in your world, and
in your projections onto the real
world. When someone goes on
the Internet, their imagination,
their mind can go very far. But the
difference between the dream and
the Internet is that you still manifest
something ‘real’ onto the Internet.
Which is beautiful to think about in
itself. In turn, this will be received
through the eyes and in the mind
of a stranger, which is something
I want to illustrate through my
practice and writing.
However, it is interesting to see
that if I placed the emphasis on
the video of the live stream which
is created afterwards, it is only
the video, not the chat & activity
of the users involved, not the
expressions or intimacies shared.
Therefore, it is already an entirely
different mediated object once
the ‘live’ part of the stream is
over. It is a collaboration during
the performance, but becomes
a completely different thing
once transformed into video. A
transformation from subject to
object. So this ‘liveness’ is what
I am trying to understand, as I
believe it links to this serendipitous
expression of essence that is
released during experience. I want
to create a work which continues
its life after I have left.
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