There is an intimate relation between a piece of luggage and its owner. When carried, the luggage intermittently caresses the body of its holder. The heavier the luggage, the closer the relationship. It is an act that carries with it an unsolicited pleasure – a body forced into a sensation of painful joy. Here, the power play shifts. The luggage now contains within it the body that once held it. This body is limited to push backwards, blindly moving against the flow of the passersby who must now find themselves in an alienating experience, respond to the demands of an object they once presumed they could control. 

“Piiiisssst” is a 55-minute performance/installation. The performance took place at the Milwaukee Art Museum, October 2018 during its opening ceremony. The installation constructed of 32.4 linear meters by 0.335-meter width - folded posters, revealing body parts coming out from a suitcase, suitcase part or simply limbs that meet each other in a non-orthodox manner. It is a reflection on the actual gesture of being carried in a suitcase as a necessity that one should have while moving from a place to another, unexpectedly. Knowing that one might not get a chance to cross borders, the suitcase becomes a camouflage of bare necessity.

Piiiisssst is a story of the adaptivity of survival, as we are only left with our bodies; our own archives. This performance takes on the archive and reassesses it from a different angle; an angle that highlights the violence of death, one of the archives.