Zumba, 2015 - ongoing
Zumba, 2014 - present. Double-sided sequinned fabric, strobe lights, laptop running DMX, a darkened space and two performers. Fabric 140 x 200 cm approx. Performance dimensions variable, with a duration of up to 30 secs. Performed here on Drivetime Underground, 2016 Images by Dimitri Djuric.
Zumba is a performed painting.
Two performers are instructed to lift up and agitate the works sequinned body under pulsating strobe lights. Through optical trickery, the painting’s heavily laden glittery surface transforms into liquid. Each and every quivering sequin functions as a tiny mirror, bouncing the white light of the strobes rhythmically, into the eyes of the audience. In the folds of the billowing fabric, where light does not reach, shadows are created, while exposed sequins glisten and form highlights, rendering the fabric into a fluid three-dimensional form.
There, not there, there again but different, gives the work a limbo-like status; alternately lit and unlit, Zumba fluctuates between seen and unseen, illusion and reality. Manifesting for mere seconds, it will reappear in the hands on many people, over time, ad infinitum.
Zumba, 2014 - present. Double-sided sequinned fabric, strobe lights, laptop running DMX, a darkened space and two performers. Fabric 140 x 200 cm approx. Performance dimensions variable, with a duration of up to 30 secs. Zumba, performed within the exhibition Show-Off, 2014