Samani. Some Proposals to Answer Important Questions

Samani. Some Proposals to Answer Important Questions brings the choreographed movement of a pole dance into mind. In a darkened room, a single spotlight travels like a robot along a metal pole, turning abruptly on its own axis. It slides up and down, spins around, drifts, wiggles in smooth arabesque patterns, following elaborate applications of repeated and stochastic rhythms. The tempo is frequently altered between prestissimo and andante, with frequent breaks modulating the cycle, which averages five minutes. The rapid rotations of light produce a “spotting” of the space, a frenetic sense of being followed by a searchlight or surveillance camera.

As an animated form, Samani seems to express a foreign intelligence, the schizoid split between the kinetic machine and human (gendered) subjectivity.

As it solely performs its pre-programmed iridescent performativity, it defers the legitimating crisis of the agent to act in a world and thus to answer important questions.