Wormholes, 2006-2022, single-channel video; 13:51; Solo show at Soloway Gallery, Brooklyn, NY 2023

In search of the hole, I become it.

In this single channel video, Downey has reassembled over a decade’s worth of their performance-based videos into a new mega-edit, repurposing and unfixing their own content. In this new amalgamation, versions of them are fractured and collaged, connecting across time and space. Downey performs “the artist” through an absurd and sensorial activation of found materials and sites – a paint factory, a museum, a site specific sculpture, to name a few. Wormholes presents queer embodiment as visceral and entropic, where breakdown is also breakthrough.

Made with the support of temp.files online video residency.

Interview about Wormholes with Tusia Dabrowska / temp.files