Uppsala Kunstmuseum, Sweden and film in London – 2013

The last work I did before the year of A Transpective was I’d Rather Go Blind at Modern Art Oxford, 2011, a piece about disintegrating sounds alongside disintegrating images. When I was invited by the Friktioner Internationell Performance Konst Festival, Uppsala, I was aware that the French post-structuralist philosopher Michel Foucault had spent several years in the city. Many of his concerns were pertinent to my current explorations, as in this quote from his The Archaeology of Knowledge (1969) :

“Do not ask who I am and do not ask me to remain the same: leave it to our bureaucrats and our police to see that our papers are in order. At least spare us their morality when we write.”

I decided to make the work with my Chana Dubinski self and name, using similar disintegrations of sound and visual, calling the work Something Told Me It Was Over.