Offering compelling and innovative experiences that challenge architectural norms with endurance-based performances, immersive installations and sculptures, Miles Greenberg’s art has been exhibited in prestigious venues such as galleries and biennials. Greenberg’s most recent performance, RESPAWN, explores the concept of respawning through a mirrored space resembling digital landscapes, in collaboration with Luminato Festival Toronto, at the Art Gallery of Ontario.
Influenced by the ideas of feminist psychoanalyst and philosopher Julia Kristeva, Jordan Tannahill has created a unique extended poem for this piece. In games, respawning means coming back to life. In Walker Court, Greenberg explores the concept of respawning from multiple perspectives: as a journey and as a method of reclaiming one’s beginnings, ultimately aiming to reinterpret them in the search for truth. RESPAWN explores the interplay between performance and sculpture, representations of marginalised bodies and the transformative power of language and experience, inviting reflection on the potential for subjects to be reformed. In this day-long event, influenced by first-person combat video games, Greenberg wields a weapon while his imaginary opponent is positioned behind a camera mounted on a robot. On a mirrored stage littered with silicone duplicates of the artist, he continued his performance until exhaustion set in.
