How our identities are constructed has become increasingly complex by the systemic spatial coexistence “in between” virtual and physical migrations. ON THE EDGE OF SELF depicts a shared moment of choice – to stay or leave – between participants, Penny Aviles and Paul Gyori. No decision is revealed, no destination or place reached. One place does not leave the realm of influence as another, and a multiplicity of virtual others, continue a cycle where constructed fictions and reality are permeable and interchangeable.

ON THE EDGE OF SELF navigates migrant identity, working with continually accumulating scenes and randomized sequencing software, to interweave the duality of isolation and connectedness while redefining the spatial relationship of encounters. 3d animated environments and live footage envelope each person. They exist in each place yet never together. Each part is switched and repeated. Each version is site-specific and evolves.

The work references Jorge Luis Borges, from pieces including The Garden of Forking Paths and The Aleph, specifically to the notion of simultaneous exposure to the world- once magical and now virtual.

Animation collaboration with JEFF CONEFRY