Body as Printing Press

Midway Gallery, San Francisco, CA, 2016

This performance integrated body and technology into one organic machine, where through dance the body became a live ink press. Alexa uses herself to portray the mechanisms of the press. On one hand the body is already a machine. On the other hand machine is often viewed in juxtaposition to the body. This performance highlights both at once and perhaps dissolves that boundary. Machine as soft and organic and body as precise and predictable.