Arms, Legs

Putting on paint overalls

Fingers tying shoelaces

Shoes once yellow, stained sticky

The wax manufacturing plant glooms with dissonder

Dissonder is a mixed-media installation centered around a wax factory, and one of its workers. Layer by layer, their body is repurposed for labour. Now, echoes of a factory continue to drive them. Memories seep into wax and whilst the individual becomes its surroundings, the world becomes dissonder.

The installation invites the audience to experience a pivotal event not ordered by time, but ordered by how this event is being relived through. Here we see a growing, clutching and echoing mind and the role that the imaginative and associative mind takes when doing so.

"Events are never in the past, nor have they passed. Dutch writer Hella Haasse writes: "History is immortal, as it takes shape of all that moves. What has “really” been, will be “reality”, always.”
And wax, I found very suitable, when adapting this notion. Wax is temporary, and sticks all at the same time. It’s malleable, and even when it melts away, it leaves something behind.
The past is constantly under a rewriting, and this is what lays the groundwork of Dissonder."