tirage tirage tirage tirage
tirage tirage tirage tirage
tirage tirage tirage tirage
tirage tirage tirage tirage
Performance, 12 June 2023
Chair, stethoscope, speaker, paper, drawing, cardiograms
In Tirage, the artist explores the concept of presence through the representation of a heartbeat in four distinct forms. Referencing Joseph Kosuth’s One and Three Chairs (1965), which presents a chair as object, image, and definition, Tirage applies this conceptual framework to the human body — and more specifically, its pulse.
The performance presents the heartbeat as:
1. A written definition on paper
2. A clinical cardiogram from a doctor
3. A hand-drawn heartbeat chart, where each beat is marked by a circle drawn in real time over one minute
4.The artist’s live body, seated with a stethoscope transmitting their heartbeat through a speaker into the space
By layering objective documentation, manual interpretation, and live performance, Tirage invites the viewer to reconsider the boundary between data and experience, presence and representation. The work transforms a biological rhythm into a fragile, multisensory language — one that is both intensely personal and universally human.
Chair, stethoscope, speaker, paper, drawing, cardiograms
In Tirage, the artist explores the concept of presence through the representation of a heartbeat in four distinct forms. Referencing Joseph Kosuth’s One and Three Chairs (1965), which presents a chair as object, image, and definition, Tirage applies this conceptual framework to the human body — and more specifically, its pulse.
The performance presents the heartbeat as:
1. A written definition on paper
2. A clinical cardiogram from a doctor
3. A hand-drawn heartbeat chart, where each beat is marked by a circle drawn in real time over one minute
4.The artist’s live body, seated with a stethoscope transmitting their heartbeat through a speaker into the space
By layering objective documentation, manual interpretation, and live performance, Tirage invites the viewer to reconsider the boundary between data and experience, presence and representation. The work transforms a biological rhythm into a fragile, multisensory language — one that is both intensely personal and universally human.
