Asad Raza, Holobio, Crush Curatorial, Amangansett, NY, U.S.A

Holobio is a durational artwork that took place at Crush Amagansett from late afternoon through sundown on a September evening. The summer prior, choreographers Ezra Fieremans and Nikima Jagudajev, and artist Asad Raza were in residence on site. They observed, experimented, choreographed, and inhabited the settings and in-between spaces where their performance would soon unfold: yards of grass, shadows beneath old trees, a pool, and a potato barn, among others. Blurring the boundaries between artist, dancer, participant and viewer, Holobio cultivated a distilled sensorial experience through natural and human contact. Changes in light, threads of movement, smells and smoke passing through the air, and whispers of song were poignant conductors of activation. Building off of the concept of an intra-acting ecosystem, Holobio formed an environment of raw intimacy and reactive exchange, where slow dancing bent time and the vanishing of light made space.