TOPOI KOINOI (2017)

Topoi Koinoi is a single channel video work (second from top) that developed into a performance work presented on several occasions including at Alaska Projects in Sydney in 2017, at the Black Box performance series at UNSWAAD (UNSW Art & Design) in 2017, and at the Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing as part of the Beijing Media Arts Biennale in 2018. Topoi Koinoi combines stock imagery depicting generic infrastructural elements, a text work exploring generic structures in language, and re-performances of everyday digital labour in order to depict totalising abstractions such as Aristotle's 'topoi koinoi' and Keller Easterling's concept of 'infrastructure space'. Through scrolling animations, live Auto-Tuned singing, image searches and everyday digital labour, the performance attempts to depict a movement between the particular and the general, and the place of the individual in the assemblage of the multitude.