ABSTRACT
Klare Lanson interviews video and performance artist Emile Zile, who waxes lyrical on the re-coding and re-performance of key works from contemporary art history—including Yoko Ono and Dan Graham—through his dark and humorous breed of platform poetics. Zile is an artist who has performed the network since the early noughties. Using these critical re-use strategies, Zile occupies the creative spaces of gesture, live video and improvised site-specific work to analyze digital culture’s role in our increasingly amplified everyday sociality. Zile discusses the use of platforms in his work—reflecting a distributed humanity, a yearning for transcendence and the limits of language.
