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The act
The process of skipping epitomizes a philosophy of movement. These days, most folks are feeling a bit overwhelmed from the speed of change, the unpredictability of flows, and the pace of life.
Skippisox consist of fiberglass disks that attach to the soles of shoes. People put them on, and skip—physically embodying the concepts of the project; a larger-scale interdisciplinary inquiry into skipping that includes a video installation and a multimedia lecture called Skipping Slides.
Skips (in humans, nature and machines) are unpredictable and dis-continuous movements. Contemplating skipping we expose the limitations of our spatial/continuous, gestalt-forming perceptions.
This project is a probe into the problem of movement; the ancient paradox that capturing movement, stops it. Inspired by the notion of the “interval” put forward by Bergson and later remixed by Deleuze, it models the difference between continuous and discrete phenomenon.
Skipping occurs in humans, nature and machines.
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Skipping is a reductive process that implies the missing of an anticipated beat, period, interval or meeting. Skipping is singular—a distinct quality of rhythm and behavior.
To grasp a philosophy of movement requires intuition and embodiment. Skipping is a moving method of contemplation that reveals itself in the gap space between the frames.