ROSHANA RUBIN MAYHEW 

ROSHANA RUBIN MAYHEW

w/ tenderness (2024). Various.

This is a collection of performance remains and materials to think-with from Movement One: 4’45”, hold and Movement Two: MAKE ME WET, edging towards Movement Three. These include two suits. The first wrestled with an equivalent bodyweight of malleable clay. The second, tailored with frictive materials, broke down the same, dried body of clay, from which the rhythmic sounds were remixed live. The sounding movement scores of both performances are present, frameworks from which to improvise. Feeling-through wrestling holds and 12-bar structures, this is interested in how within improvisation the wrong (or wrongful) note becomes the point of departure: picked up, held , and moved-with. A generative leaning into dissonance that responsively seeks out the rub of the sweet spot, resolutely tender in its pleasure-generating pleasure-seeking. (Stills from documentation filmed by Sophie Chapman, Southwark Park Galleries 2022 and Ames Pennington, Copeland Gallery 2023.)