Flesh and Mortar

• Main Authors: Black-Frizell, Sarah, Pierre-Louis, Angie
• Format: text
• Published: Archīum Ateneo 2024
• Subjects: ethics; sensitive documentation modes; sited practice; maternal
• Online Access: https://archium.ateneo.edu/kk/vol1/iss40/16; https://archium.ateneo.edu/context/kk/article/2026/viewcontent/KK_2040_2C_202023_2016_20Forum_20Kritika_20on_20Dancing_20Democracy_20in_20a_20Fractured_20World_20__20Black_Frizell_20and_20Pierre_Louis.pdf
• Institution: Ateneo De Manila University

Flesh and Mortar is a visual investigation of being with one another while never sharing the same physical space. Flesh and Mortar utilizes the process of Offerings, a practice-based methodology dance artists Sarah Black-Frizell and Angie Pierre-Louis developed during the COVID-19 Pandemic. This work explores the process of sending and receiving images much like a conversation, encouraging a particular way of looking and responding to carefully constructed artifacts of lived experience. Flesh and Mortar focuses not on artistic production or expectation, but on an evolving relationship and the unpredictability of working intimately with sensitive materials. This work addresses ethical considerations in art making and the images share moments captured through sensitive documentation modes (Black).