
Precarious Lines: Instructions for Interacting with a Chair (drawing)
2023, 21:55 minutes, Black & White, sound (no dialogue)
TAPECODE 2143.03
This is a video which documents a performance of Precarious Lines: Instructions for Interacting with a Chair, including the making of a drawing as response. Leena Raudvee performs the act of sitting down and getting up again with her disabled body and then draws the internal echoes of these efforts on a large sheet of mylar attached to the wall.
Leena Raudvee stands in front of a chair facing the camera. Slowly, she lowers herself down to the seat of the chair, pauses, and then, with great effort, pushes down hard with both arms and rises up to standing.
She reaches down to the floor, picks up two sticks and, cautiously, walks towards the wall using the sticks for balance.
She places the sticks on the floor and takes a piece of charcoal in each hand. Reaching up, she draws black lines with both hands on the mylar attached to the wall.
She draws. A large hybrid creature slowly emerges. Occasionally she pauses to look. Finally, she puts down the charcoal, steps back, takes a long look, then turns around and walks away.
There are no voices, only the sound of footsteps and the charcoal on mylar.
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