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Short Throat 2025
DEVIKA BILIMORIA
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info@devikabilimoria.com
Offerings 2025Usi 2025Make me a mountain 2024
Short Throat 2025
Short Throat, 2025
In Short-Throat (2025), the body becomes an intensified relational form. I’m thinking with Elizabeth Grosz, where the body is not a fixed identity but a field of forces, sensations, and becomings. The work attends to what happens between—between the heat of the sun, the melting ice cream, the skin, and the camera’s gaze. These exchanges are not symbolic but affective; they operate through intensities that exceed intention. The slow and ritualised, durational act of holding and touching the ice cream amplifies this entanglement of matter and desire, where melting becomes a form of communication. I’ve been thinking about how durational performance could be a form of Camp, not as irony, but as an aesthetic of heightened presence, where excess and endurance coexist. In this sense, Camp becomes a way of attending to time as artifice, to performance as a mode of amplified relationality. The work stages an intimacy between body and climate that resists separation—an ongoing choreography of relation, where affect, artifice, and environment co-compose the experience of becoming.
Performed 26th September 2024 in 31 degrees celsius next to Pub El Molion de Blanca along the Segura river of Blanca, Spain, during ON DURATION residency, curated by Raegan Truax at AADK Spain.
EXHIBITIONS
26 NOV - 7 FEB 2026
Seventh Gallery, Melbourne
‘House of Ghosts’
Artists: Maki Ogawa, Naveed Farro, Keiran Molaeb, Devika Bilimoria, Thang Do, Johanna van der Linden, Alexandra Kumala and Jacob Kotzee.
13+14 SEPT 20+21 SEPT 2025
FRINGE! QUEER FILM AND ARTS FESTIVAL
Live Art Development Agency (LADA), London
‘The Body is a Thing In Time’
Artists: Devika Bilimoria, Claye Bowler, kane stonestreet, Sweatmother, Léann Herlihy, Martin O’Brien, SITE and Joshua Woolford.