In a performance that resembles a stream of consciousness love letter monologue, Kim Ye splices together topics ranging from paraphilia, to climate change, and BDSM to animism in exploring the sensuality of the human/object relationship. Weaving together found and original text with quotes from Jane Bennett, Baruch Spinoza, Michel Foucault, and WJT Mitchell, the artist engages the concept of a “script” as a subconscious force that guides humans’ interaction with their inanimate surrounding. Inverting the hierarchical relationship between the human and nonhuman, this performance attempts to describe the physical and psychic codependence between ourselves and our synthetic neighbors, playmates, and lovers while exploring the sensual possibilities between thingness and the human body.

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Originally performed at Human Resources as part of the Ecology of the Edge exhibition, the performance script has been published in its entirety on Mustekala and the full 22 minute video documentation can be found on vimeo.