Documentation of a new body of work, Do I Need To Spell It Out? Is a site intervention contemplating the duality between hopefulness and hopelessness in the embodiment of language. Text turned to sculpture, Siahne packs up a trolley and travels around New York in search of how sentiment changes a space and space changes the sentiment. Wonky and precarious in its imitation of classical form around it, Siahne explores how the gesture Sooner Or Later becomes a physical personification of the effects this has on our bodies, performing on our behalf.

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Drawing from ongoing research in Affect Theory, the work examines the visceral ways emotions move through and reshape both individual bodies and collective spaces. The mobile nature of the work, carrying sentiment loaded object place to place, mirrors how affects circulate and accumulate, creating potential to leave traces in both body and environment. Each intervention becomes a site of inquiry into how feelings become material, how language transforms into bodily experience, and how these transformations can alter the fabric of place itself.

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Documentation by Andrew B White NYC

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Participation in SVA Residency and development of work was made possible by support from  SNAP Funding with the Department of Creative Industries, Tourism and Sport - Western Australia