Fight or flight_flight or Fight. 2019. Jessica Doucha and

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South-African artist Jessica Doucha and German artist Marco Miehling come together for a collaboration at Nirox Sculpture Park, for the 2019 Winter Exhibition, Power of Site, curated by Adam Jeppesen and Lorena Guillén Vaschetti.

Beyond the binary nature of our human existence, rooted in our genetic and ancestral
cognitive patterns, lies a fundamental survival mechanism. The fight or flight response.
Only by this, we survived the cold of night. Here again we find ourselves verging on the locus of the cradle of humankind. Between gravity and will let curiosity determine the experience.

Together, they inaugurate multiple temporary starting points across the Nirox grounds.
The sites are determined by the lay of the land in which the acclivity (an upward slope) is a central element to the unfolding of the action based performance. Each unknown parameter invites a sense of curiosity, as a methodology, in relation to the nature of the given sculpture. A new threshold of self (re)flection is (re)created again and again, as she replicates the actions leading to the fight or flight response, which naturally occurs in the face of an imminent physical danger.

Within this new physical and cognitive paradigm of exploring the threshold of human responsiveness to fear, she cannot fly in the face of the socio political dialogues, which keep her stuck in the unknown. It is in our collective human nature to constantly adapt; no matter how subtle, as long as there is movement there is change.

Director of photography Gina Kraft
Assistant Photographer Dan Allen
Editors Jessica Doucha and Gina Kraft

jessicadoucha.com
marcomiehling.de
ginakraft.co.za

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