Throat, 2023
LED screen, video, sound. 37.75 x 31.25 inches
In collaboration with Ellen Bleiwas and Justine Kohleal
”the hole fits the worm, but only as it moves” exhibition
the plumb, Toronto, Canada
11.03.2023-12.03.2023
Exhibition Review by Rashana Youtzy
Bleiwas, DiCarlo, and Kohleal’s emergent collaboration Throat (2023) explores the mechanisms that make bodies both invisible and hyper-visible in Toronto’s financial district: invisible through the PATH system, a subterranean, commercial pedway spanning more than 30 kilometres that enables workers to avoid contact with the ‘outside’ world; and, paradoxically, hyper-visible through the creation of the financial district itself, which requires bodily presence to justify its existence. At our current historical moment, which since March of 2020 has seen global inflation, an affiliated cost of living crisis, and a growing labour movement, it is more important than ever, as Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing says, to explore “the edges of capitalist discipline [and] scalability,” looking towards the empty(ing) towers and other “abandoned resource plantations'' to find life in our capitalist ruins.[1] This exhibition thus explores the problem of embodiment within late-stage capitalism—from the standardization of clock time and space to ways of seeing and being in the world—drawing upon dissonances in the rhythm of the everyday to provide avenues for glitch and resistance at the level of the sensing, feeling body.
[1] Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing, The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins. Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2015, 282.