Amalia Kasakove

Picture from Amalia Kasakoves research "Toast"

Toast, Amalia Kasakove

During their residency at MDT Amalia is working on "Toast".

A little bit about the work:

"Toast is a research in the gutter between animation and choreography. It bends into the form of an installation, a stop-motion animation film and a comic book. The point of gravity for this project has been grief - a slippery state that has been largely conditioning my working. This irrecoverable loss and at times immobilizing grief has paradoxically become the condition of a new kind of agency. I have begun approaching materials that I could hold onto, animating things other than myself. The work addresses that which is both achingly present as well as utterly gone. 

In the present I find myself holding onto form through stop-motion animation and the squares of a comic book. I began drawing comic strips in relation to the research and as a way of following the process. I am drawn to the gutter that remains between the comic strip squares as well as the gutter of time between each frame and two clicks of a shutter. These empty spaces leave space for the unresolvable, unutterable and inexplicable - for liminality between form and content, a transition and sense making that doesn’t fill the gap. 

In this residency I worked between the miniscule and the grand; in a shoe box and a theater stage."