Constructs and Context Relativity: Performance II, 2021
3 Channel HD Video and Super 8mm Transfer.
TRT 12:30mins.
Performance II is a three-channel experimental digital performance investigating how constructed systems in space inform one’s subjective experience. Through diaristic reflections, long-take improvisations, virtual collaborations, and fantasy, Neptune explores space as an abstract of codified systems that shape one’s modes of communication and perception.
Social Works, a group exhibition curated by Antwaun Sargent at Gagosian (New York, NY) presented selected works by Christie Neptune. Social Works considers the relationship between space—personal, public, institutional, and psychic—and Black social practice. With a wide range of material and theoretical approaches, the work on view is united by a conscious engagement with today’s cultural moment, in which numerous social factors have converged to produce a heightened urgency for Black artists to utilize space as a community-building tool and a means of empowerment.
