Slippage attempts to amplify slippages in the performance of Self. This three channel video installation features the performance of discretely assigned ‘selves’: discomfort, awe and aggravation. Each performance affects a jarring moment in time, revealing a rare moment of non-performance of self, non-construction of identity, an opening of promise in which newness may emerge. Block raises the question: if identity is performed, then what aspects of ourselves lie beyond the performance?

Block utilizes the absence of performance as a strategy for exploring an in-between state: a midway point between the conscious and the unconscious; a place embracing contradiction and paradox.

Block’s tethered beings are trapped within the bounds of a device, their constant ocular searching for connection to either themselves or to others.  Uncannily, reflections somehow become more “real” than the real: a critical and nihilistic view of our relationship with technology slipping towards the post human.