Michal_samama_-_background_materials (original)... 🚀 💫

Explores the "mute surroundings" of a space. The performer interacts with the architecture to highlight its elusiveness. Plastic trash bags

Reviewers from the New York Times and footage from Vimeo describe several defining features of the work: michal_samama_-_background_materials (Original)...

Background Materials is a hybrid event that combines two of Samama’s previous performance pieces into a single narrative arc: Core Material Action & Meaning The concrete wall Explores the "mute surroundings" of a space

Samama uses a whistle to make her labored breathing audible, emphasizing the physical exertion required to "be a body". The work is rooted in the philosophy of

The work is rooted in the philosophy of , specifically the idea that "to be a body is to be tied to a world".

Samama often morphs into the materials she uses. For example, she may use her fingers like "fishhooks" to distort her face into a snout, blurring the line between human and animal/object.

Focuses on the plastic bag as a "transparent carrier of waste." It investigates materials that are rarely objects of direct reflection.