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The Vertical Line Test

THE VERTICAL LINE TEST, live performance, 2023, santa monica california

(THE VERTICAL LINE TEST IS AN INVITED PERFORMANCE FOR THE LIVE PERFORMANCE EVENT, SWEPT AWAY: LOVE LETTER TO A SURROGATE, ORGANIZED BY WARREN NEIDICH, RENÉE PETROPOULOS, AND ANURADHA VIKRAM. PRESENTED BY 18TH STREET ARTS CENTER WITH SUPPORT FROM THE CITY OF SANTA MONICA ART OF RECOVERY PROGRAM AND THE ANNENBERG COMMUNITY BEACH HOUSE.)

I AM the variable “X” AND YOU ARE the variable “Y”. IF I AM UNDER THE X AXIS AND YOU ARE ABOVE THE X AXIS, CAN WE BE A FUNCTION? IF I AM HERE AT THE Y AXIS AND IF YOU ARE THERE AT THE X AXIS, CAN US BE A FUNCTION?

FUNCTION, IN MATHEMATICS, IS rule THAT DEFINES A RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN ONE VARIABLE (THE INDEPENDENT VARIABLE) AND ANOTHER VARIABLE (THE DEPENDENT VARIABLE). THE VERTICAL LINE TEST IS A METHOD THAT IS USED TO DETERMINE WHETHER A GIVEN RELATION IS A FUNCTION OR NOT.

According to Sarah Ahmad, “migrant orientation” is facing two different directions: toward a home that has been away, and toward a place that is not yet home. A singular Body always move towards two different directions. the variable X moves toward the plus value, but also toward the minus value at the same time.

The direction of a migrant cannot be set to a single coordinate.

IF, the variable x moves toward plus value but also toward the minus value, if the x here but also there—- if the x is a fluid body—- Couldn't X be the same as Y? If the variable X is me and the variable Y is you, is the boundary between us clear?

Performance, the vertical line test, poetically interprets the equation of the function graph to navigate a coordianate of immigrants’ fragmented identity and asks if the impossibility of a singular location can expand into the possibility of breaking down the boundary between me and you.

수직선 테스트, 라이브 퍼포먼스, 2023, 산타모니카 캘리포니아

(수직선 테스트는 워렌 네이딕, 르네 페트로풀로스, 아누 비크람이 주최한 라이브 퍼포먼스 이벤트, SWEPT AWAY: LOVE LETTER TO A SURROGATE의 초대 이벤트이다. 18th 스트릿 아트센터, 산타모니카 예술 리커버리 프로그램, 앤넨버그 커뮤니티 비치 하우스의 협력으로 이루어진 이벤트이다.)

수학에서 함수는 한 변수(독립 변수)와 다른 변수(종속 변수) 간의 관계를 정의하는 규칙이다. 수직선 테스트는 주어진 변수 X와 Y의 관계가 함수인지 아닌지를 판단하는데 사용되는 식이다. 나는 X 이고 당신은 Y 이다. 내가 X축 아래에 있고 당신이 X축 위에 있다면, 우리는 함수가 될 수 있을까? 내가 여기 Y축에 있고 당신이 저기 X축에 있다면, 우리는 함수가 될 수 있을까? X = Y, 내가 동시에 Y 이고 당신이 동시에 X 라면, 그것은 함수가 될 수 있을까?

사라 아마드(Sarah Ahmad)는 “이주민의 방향성”이 두 가지 다른 지점을 향하는 방향성이라고 말한다. 떠나 있던 집을 향한 방향과 아직 집이 아닌 곳을 향한 방향. 단일한 몸은 늘 두 개의 다른 방향으로 향하고 있다. 변수 X는 플러스 값으로 이동하지만 동시에 마이너스 값으로도 이동한다. 이주민의 방향성은 단일한 위치 값으로 설정할 수 없다. 변수 X 가 플러스값으로도 마이너스 값으로도 이동하고, 여기에도 있고 저기에도 있는, 유동하는 몸체라면? 변수 X 는 결국 변수 Y와 동일한 것일 수 있지 않을까? 변수 X 가 나이고 변수 Y 가 당신이라면 우리 둘의 경계는 뚜렷한 것일까? 수직 및 수평으로 신체를 확장한 X 는 여기에도 있고 저기에도 있다면 X=Y, Y=X, 즉 우리는 함수이다. 퍼포먼스, 수직선 테스트는 함수 그래프의 방정식을 시적으로 해석하여 이주민의 분열된 정체성으로 단일한 위치값을 설정할 수 없음을, 그리고 그 불가능성을 나와 타자와의 경계를 허무는 가능성으로 확장할 수 있을지 질문한다.

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(Digging)

Dear Bastienne,

You told me about Ariadne’s red thread. in Greek Mythology.

Theseus unrolled the ball of red thread as he passes the maze, which allowed him to find his way back out. 

What if the maze implies our own selves? 

What if the prenotion of an autonomous self has created the maze that captures ourselves, And howhowhow can we find the way out?  

FLOOD < FADE < FLOAT < FLOW < FEAR < FLEE < FREE < FOOD < SEA < SAVE

(Stick the umbrella next to the whole,

Tie the end of the thread on the middle of the umbrella)

IF (if if if)

the red thread is a map, a graph of a function, then how can I locate you and me? 

(Hold the other mirror circle and give to another person)

I, I, I,  am water. the variable “ X” 

You, you are the other variable “ Y”. 

Y is a function of X

Y and X is interchangeable 

(Crouch inside the hole. Hold the umbrella on top of the head)

Vertical Line Test is a method to determine whether a given relation is a function or not. 

IF

I am at the end of the y-axis and you are at the end of the x-axis, can we become a function?

IF

I reflect over x-axis, Thus, I am UNDER the x axis but also ABOVE the x axis, which means, you are also under the x axis and above the x axis, can we become a function?

IF

I am ABOVE and UNDER and LEFT and RIGHT at the same time as you—, can we become a function? 

HOW do we enable our own “becoming - other” (Elizabeth Grosz) 

FLOOD < FADE < FLOAT < FLOW < FEAR < FLEE < FREE < FOOD < SEA < SAVE

(Crouch outside from the hole. Place the umbrella horizontally leaning on the rack.

Bring back the circle mirror from the other person and put it down.

Put down the amplifier on top of the mirroR. Stick the trash bin rack inside the hole.

Grab a bucket and fill out the sand and walk to the ocean)

Astrida Neimanis, Bodies of Water 

We, are, bodies of water

We comprise water, we leak spill drain stream and seethe. Our borders are vulnerable to rupture and renegotiate. 

The flow and flush of water sustain our own bodies, but also connect them to other bodies.

body, to body, to body. 

Water is directed towards the becoming of other bodies. 

Our own embodiment is never really autonomous. 

When “y is a function of x.” 

Y and X are interchangeable.

We are both different 

and in common 

FLOOD < FADE < FLOAT < FLOW < FEAR < FLEE < FREE < FOOD < SEA < SAVE

(Grab the mirror circle and walk towards the ocean)

Dear Bastienne,


According to Sarah Ahmad, “migrant orientation” is facing two different directions: toward a home that has been away, and toward a place that is not yet home. Body, the variable X move towards the plus value, but also move towards the minus value . This malfunction of a function, the error, the crack occurs in the body. 

What if what if what if 

The malfunction of a function, the crack of the singular body creates a place where i am you at the same time?


What if what if what if 

This crack this gap this error, is a way that we can find ourselves out? 


You say, “The red thread pulls us which will lead to a million different dead ends, BUT we will find a place.” 

FLOOD < FADE < FLOAT < FLOW < FEAR < FLEE < FREE < FOOD < SEA <SAVE

FLOOD < FADE < FLOAT < FLOW < FEAR < FLEE < FREE < FOOD < SEA <SAVE

You say I say you say, “We will find a place.”

I say I say you say, “we will find a place.”

 

PHOTO BY SEAN SPRAGUE AND RON ASULIN