The project Residual Glitter materialized in the form of a ‘performance continuum’ emerged as a flash image, a ‘folding’ which responds to an apocalyptic cataclysm, exploring some feasible possibilities in a post-Anthropocene era. The performance is set in a surrealist landscape created in the aftermath of a bizarre apocalypse which has turned everything into glitter. Glitter is a metaphor for rubble and debris, a remnant of a past life. Therefore, the perpetual re-enactment, re-telling of the same story becomes a form of survival. The performative act together with the story itself are tools which could help humanity understand, accept and overcome our end, and inspire our rebirth.
In the view of artist Adina Mocanu: ‘us, humans, are at the end of an era of our existence. Society needs a reorganization and we need to find an explanation for our new identity in the context of the internet, globalization, cultural appropriation, ecological disasters, humanitarian disasters, technological overload, wars, pandemics.
In my opinion, an apocalypse has happened, is happening, will happen. It is an embodiment of how humans have chosen to write their history, and I am not optimistic that it will succeed in ending the destructive process. I am, however, optimistic about what the survivors will do after the dust settles; but first they will have to put themselves back together, to deal with the losses - mainly the loss of life as they knew it, life at the wildest heights of human society, ‘the shining’ life.’
The performance is accompanied by an artist book containing its transcription.