Performance | Ruminations On Memory at ESMoA

“We cannot “return” to the old world. We are all changed. We are all interconnected. There is power in these shared cultural memories.” —Trina Merry. How do we measure ourselves in Time, and how do we reflect on those memories? Award-winning body artist Trina Merry’s artistic practice seeks to explore and express the interconnectedness of human experience, particularly in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. In her latest work, “Experience 36: Ruminations on Memory,” Merry offers a powerful meditation on the nature of time and collective memory. Experience 36: Ruminations on Memory, a subversive body painting performance. A collaboration between world-renowned body painter Trina Merry and two-time Oscar-winning production designer Rick Carter. Watch as models are transformed into works of art through Trina’s live body painting as she seamlessly blends bodies into the movie iconography and memorabilia of Rick’s current exhibition, “TIME“, such as her camouflage into the bench from For