This is a collaborative installation by THE POWERS (Katherine Kline, Emily Pelstring, and JESSICA MENSCH) at Articite in Windsor, Ontario in 2023.
In The Powers’ live streamed web series, Sistership TV (2018-2020), we sailed upon a metaphorical vessel to diverse environments, shape-shifting and moving between dimensions, exploring various topics: human-animal communication; the cyborg; telepresence; hysteria; witchcraft; hybrid beings; and panpsychism. For this installation, we translate the archived world of Sistership TV to the setting of a large, soft vessel, the Fortuna Perplexus, which is afloat in a sea of ephemera from the web series.
Fortuna is the Greek goddess of luck and fortune. Perplexus is Latin for entangled, ambiguous, and inscrutable. With this work, we reflect on energetic, economic, and material entanglements, making an experimental mess that we hope can lead to different forms of relation and help us imagine better worlds.
