Vincent Tiley

Lives and works in Brooklyn, NY, USA

Artist statement

My garment-based durational performances and sculptures explore how clothing is used as language. Individuals use clothing and style to signal who we are to each other. By creating garments and jewelry that fully disguise, restrain, and combine its wearers I attempt to create new words within this language. By sewing and shaping metal around physical touch I hope to write new words for "Lovers", "Together" and "Presence". These works are long and slow, often lasting three hours. They are mostly undirected with the choreographic score reduced down to the movements, fidgets, and measured breaths of their performers as they settle into the limitations and possibilities of their new combined form. Like a "Cronenberg Sit-in" their politics are existence and presence, remarking on the endurance required for queer survival and visibility. In these performances the boundaries of individual bodies are blurred reminding us of how intertwined and permeable our bodies are.

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