slow burning

An ongoing live environment by choreographer lauri stallings in close collaboration with glo platform and the community that situates themselves within the soil, slopes, bricks, steel, and birds. Featuring alchemic processes with periods of tableaux, resting, and slipping, the installation is a mixture of sculpture and organic matter, and highlights the vulnerability of our human condition and the complex, intricate, and inextricable relationship we share with other – than – human entities. The title of the work is borrowed from the name of a system of construction from ancient times to utilitarian industrial mills, and something that takes a lot of time to complete.

lauri and glo are lifelong resident artists of the Goat Farm, developing and transforming Corner Studio, and the project over its entire duration, making it a live and responsive commission that literally grows and replenishes over time.

Within the context of slow burning, stallings re-incorporates a multitude of birds nests back to their home that gradually become integral to the work. The artist has recovered the incomplete 12-page photographic archives and maps of the original Goat Farm and rewrote it in the form of a choreography practice: a movement on the Goat Farm that is always changing, moving, dancing; one that will always change because of the sky, sun, the rain, the climate, because of us. And that is the blessing that will sustain the work.