cealck | hc. krempels

Microperformancing begins in the theatre of the microscope and in doing so immediately interacts with the tension between scientific knowledge, sensory experience and performance studies, positing that the physical microscope itself is a tool that imposes the disengaged scientists’-eye-view on the research partner. Through DIY microscopy, this work opens up that process by projecting moving micro images of chalk back onto a chalk surface which are available to touch. By also therefore engaging with it at multiple scales and means at once it thus asks us to consider chalk as something that “cannot be reduced” (Glissant, 1997: 191) — its very nonhumanness requiring a mode of engagement that avoids the imposition of our own human cultural frame on something which lays palpably outside of it.