Exhibits,

DRM (Daniel R Marks) TELLDRILL

Opening: Wednesday October 9th, 6-8pm Dates: 9 Oct - 2 Nov

Following roughly two years of ongoing development across performance, video and audio composition, DRM presents the latest iteration of their choreographic project TELLDRILL, in the form of a performance-film research document and a set of graphic scores.

TELL and DRILL refer to processes of communication, rehearsal, extraction and stratification: telling and drilling enacted in their expanded etymological meanings and associations. These acts describe complex, self-problematising dynamics between the artist as an approximated sniffer dog (its choreography emulating a Boston Dynamics quadruped drone, as well as yogic poses including the throat-blocking khecarī mudrā), a documentary film crew geared with camcorders and microphones, a silent network of earpiece devices, and distinct private, public, and corporate locations.

This presentation of the project is a two-channel film incorporating footage from three prior versions of TELLDRILL from 2022-2023, alongside extracts of DRM’s research into algorithmic and security aesthetics, “choreopolytics”, fetishism, and post-production. The split-screen film collapses TELLDRILL’s varied situations of rehearsal and improvisation, cinematic production, public happening, and digital archive, into an adaptive telling/drilling of secretive logics within the context of the Bus Screen program: from live production into post-production and finally into the reading of the work as an in-process record.