Mental Olympics (2017)

“A body lies hiding beneath a thick sheet of black plastic, the kind used by firemen to extinguish fire. Giving way to movement and form, the plastic becomes a percussive skin used to thrash out sound. A release of manic energy. Finding quiet in the rage. ‘I used that a lot to go into that inner space where you don’t want to get exposed, sometimes you put out so much that you have to recover; under the black plastic you get release and calmness’, says Sydney artist Wart of In Between Breaths, presented as part of the Performance Space program Accidents and Alchemies in 2006.1 Finding poetry in unlikely materials, this ‘cover up’ for Wart is a requiem for ‘recovery’ — a double-edged sword where you could suffocate and choke while catching breath beneath an oppressive blanket of night.”

— Daniel Mudie Cunningham
https://danmudcun.com/criticism/mental-olympics