Reifying Desire: Model It

source: jacolby

I use video, performance, 3D animation, fibers, drawing and printmaking to explore themes of memory, desire, ritual, and heroism. My recent body work “The Matriarch’s Rhapsody” utilizes my mother’s drawings and music recordings as a primary resource. My mother, battling schizophrenia, created songs of desire and thousands of schematic drawings/inventions influenced by consumer culture, medicine, fashion, surrealism, math, sex, astrology, philosophy, and matrilineal concerns. The drawings are mostly of common objects and luxury products found in the domestic sphere. The Matriarch’s Rhapsody’s title stems from the action of repurposing everyday objects drawn by my mother, and queering their meaning in a performative animated narrative. My practice has it’s roots in dada, surrealist, and fluxus attitudes. I pair down multiple drawings and create a time based narrative out of a nonsensical intersection of the text, rendered objects and dance performance. I am interested in process as a meta narrative; the narrative between a mother & and son’s studio practices, the narrative between past, present, and future, and the narrative between mediums. My body and art facility, as an extension/interpretation of my mother’s voice and drawings, is an attempt to examine memory, insider/ outsider art practices, contemporary surrealist practices, queer phenomenology and push the tensions created during translation and inheritance of studio practice.
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source: studiomuseumorg

In a series of live performances throughout the Museum, Jacolby Satterwhite activates his new work Reifying Desire: Model It (2012). Adorned in a silver full-body latex catsuit, Satterwhite dances and poses for several hours, giving conceptual depth to the Reifying Desire installation.

Jacolby Satterwhite combines video, 3-D animation and drawing in his immersive installations and performances. In Reifying Desire: Model It, on view in Fore, Satterwhite appropriates and traces his mother Patricia Satterwhite’s drawings—inspired by household objects and consumer goods—into his videos’ digital landscape. Satterwhite makes connections between his artistic practice and his mother’s, in the process constructing psychological and cultural matriarchal lineages. Juxtaposing live performance and recorded documentation, Satterwhite also investigates the relationship between between reality and the virtual world.