Kimey Peckpo Hatches Out: A mythopoeic self-destruction story

Abstract

Kimey Peckpo Hatches Out is the title of the film around which I created a performative installation and features a fictional projection of a nomadic keynote performance speech persona. The problem in identifying the film’s place in a causal creative chain highlights my methodology of using the fiction machine as a means of speculating about an aesthetic ontology, which I regard as a realm where making and making-up are the central mode of being or becoming. The film is a further development of a methodology established in the keynote performance I gave of the Technological Nonconscious, created with my then supervisor Professor Tony Sampson for the 3rd Affect and Social media conference at the University of East London in October 2018. This performance had the effect of situating the peripheral story of KPHO in the middle of my practice and led to the development of the film as a direct interrogation of how an aesthetic ontology could be inhabited by a relational, opening-out of the self, moving towards an embodied knowledge. As the film’s opening demonstrates, KPHO became a means of exploring this self as the body without organs:

  The body without organs is an egg: it is crisscrossed with axes and thresholds, with latitudes and longitudes and geodesic lines, traversed by gradients marking the transitions and the becomings (2003:19)