intersection

From Erika Tsimbrovsky's documentation on the work with Peter: 

During one of our Intersection’s sessions, while Vadim spilled paint over his body and slowly turned in a low seating position, one could see his face reveal itself over time—and it was covered in white paint. Vadim danced with the paint at a slow pace allowing the liquid paint substance to communicate with his moving body skin, and the paint which slid over his body appeared like symbols and signs. Vadim’s face looked like a mask from a Greek tragedy, or as though it was covered in the white ash of out ancestors. Ancestors stared at us through Vadim’s mask—this is how I felt this interaction between Vadim and Peter. We asked Peter to interact with Vadim's action from a distance with a microphone in hand—as if to give voice to this enactment. Peter looked at Vadim and sang what he felt and saw. After some time, we realized that he wasn’t just singing, but that he was singing the alphabet. The alphabet spilled from Peter’s voice like the paint slid on Vadim’s body. Since Peter’s differently constructed mouth cavity impacts his voice, the alphabetical singing signs came out strange, and he had a hard time pronouncing them properly. This transformation in his voice birthed an image of 'an archaic flow of sounds from another world.' It was as though a message came from the “Wise Down.” Later, this alphabetic singing inspired our future project, Scrap-Soup.