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Drip Drip Point Warp Spin Buckle Rot
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3-channel video installation and live performance, Claridge's ArtSpace, 2024
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Drip Drip Point Warp Spin Buckle Rot centres around a three-channel video piece which follows Blum's fictional character through deserted rooms and corridors of a declining 1970’s office building. The protagonist comes across a series of choreographies and gestures she picks up from various sources: black and white portraits of Blum’s late grandmother, the Ukrainian ballerina Daria Nyzankiwska, archival recordings of dance rehearsals, and footage of a 2022 performance by Blum herself. The work draws on Blum’s research into muscle memory, institutional power and degradation as they relate to dance, architecture, and intergenerational female relationships.
Blum investigates the gesture of the pointed finger through a short live performance serving as an introduction to the work.
Redeflect 1-36
Microphone stands, prop microphones, pop filters, digital print on polyester, variable heights, 2024
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Do You See That
Giclée Print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag, 114 x 83 cm, 2024
The exhibition was made possible through the 2023 Claridge’s Royal Academy Schools Art Prize.
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On Pointing On
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Live performance, 30 min, 2024
Commissioned for Festival Académie des Mutantes, CAPC Musée d'Art Contemporain, Bordeaux, June 2024
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​Daria Blum’s performance ‘On Pointing On’ sees the figure of the 'misbehaved girl' reincarnated by a cast of characters, multiplied across video screens and live performance. Taking the Bordeaux Ballet’s ‘La Fille Mal Gardée’ as a reference point, Blum reinterprets the wayward daughter who, frustrated by the loss of voice, discovers the gesture of the pointing finger as a tool for communication as well as coercion. Conducting the music, claiming attention, casting a spell, the various characters ‘point out’, toward and away from each other, as they alternate between harmonies and cacophonies of a ritualistic insubordination.​
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Photos: Arthur Péquin
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With Urgency
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With Urgency
In collaboration with Guendalina Cerruti and Mary Stephenson. Video, 22 min, 2024
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Decollapse 1-5
Stainless steel light stands, digital print on adhesive film, dimensions variable, 2024
​Ilenia, London, March 2024.
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