Desiring-Machine I (y/o la reencarnación femenina de Sísifo)
Multimedia Installation - Performance (2010)
steel, fabrics, silicon hose, milk, motor, milk container
Dimension: 14ft. long x 4ft.wide x 9ft.high - Variable Duration

......“In a desiring-machine everything functions at the same time, but amid hiatuses and ruptures, breakdowns and failures, stalling and short-cuts, distances and fragmentations, within a sum that
never succeeds in bringing its various part together so as to form a whole
,” Deleuze and Guattari.

This is not nihilism.
My own sentence to this milk machine is either a paradox or an absurdity.

I have created a simple machine to transport milk. On one side of the machine there is a small space I made with cloth curtains. On the other side, the milk is leaking outside the machine from the end of a small plastic tube that is being driven by a cam mechanism. There I am: trying to hold that milk with the dress I have attached to my own wrists. I try to hold as much milk as I can; then, I go, I enter to a small curtain space, and I pour the milk back to its origin

And so, why to perform a “futile” task over and over again?
Why I am trying to hold the milk? Why I am taking it back to its origin?
But, before that, why I would build a “useless” machine?

Perhaps, because, when enacting the absurd heroine role, I am ultimately developing a revolution that is based neither on beginnings nor on ends but on middles – the moments in between, the unpredictable interstices of process, movement, and inventions.

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