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“Time is coming to be seen as essential dimension of being as well as multi-perspectival, no longer

  merely as a linear continuum conceived in spatial term.” —Victor Turner

 

Variations on Broken Lines is a performative installation emerging from an ongoing research-based project that explores notions of liminality and experiences of being suspended between states across space and time.

 

The anthropologist Victor Turner, in Process, Performance, and Pilgrimage, calls this being “betwixt and between”—a state of ambiguous suspension and transition, where the simultaneity of space-time places us neither here nor there, and where selfhood and collectivity are continuously constructed and challenged. The first iteration of the installation was conceived in 2020 during the pandemic, which cast the world into a collective global rite of passage marked by separation from familiar space-times as life became mediated through computer screens and virtual grids. These transformative experiences are manifested through performative rituals and artistic interventions between the physical and the virtual, the corporeal and the digital, and through an ongoing dwelling beyond time and space, where movements are ritualized and where social, cultural, and political identities are formed and reformed as poetic gestures of becoming.Through experimental cinematic assemblage and its reconstruction in an installation environment, the project embodies these liminal experiences that become an emancipatory and creative tool.