AN INDEX OF ARBITRARY MEASURES
2019
SiNGLE-CHANNEL VIDEO WORK
DURATION: 24 MINUTES 28 SECONDS
An Index of Arbitrary Measures examines the body as a site of measure, considering the history and inherent absurdity of calculating measures on individualistic terms – exploring and extrapolating from historical measures such as the hand, the foot or the arm’s length. With playful reference to early experiments of Etienne-Jules Marey and Eadweard Muybridge, whose pioneering photographic techniques intersected with scientific studies of motion and measure, An Index of Arbitrary Measures contemplates the inevitable abstraction of self that acts of measure mandate.