Mean Time Between Failures is a performance art and dance duo with activist, artist organizer Dash Che and Suvi Tuominen.
Originally the name ‘mean time between failures’ is taken from the machines’ realm, for example, mechanical or electronic systems. It describes the elapsed time between inherent failures of the systems that can be repaired and depends on the definition of what is considered a failure (Wikipedia).
For our system of the entanglement of two human bodies and a number of non-human bodies MTBF name gestures toward the ongoing presence of fragility and exhaustion. They gently frame our rigor, rage and curiosity as artists and bodies in relation to the political, social, imaginary and corporeal. It is important for us that the system can always be restored. Moreover, we view our duet as an open system that repairs itself by coming in close contact with what impacted its breakage in the first place. Our open system multiplies, drops its organs/parts – the art objects that are left around like spores – and goes through the processes of misalignment and realignment. This informs our artistic work methods and the relationship to each other as artistic collaborators.
read more:
www.hiap.fi/dasha-che-suvi-tuominen-sinking-through-movement/
https://dashche.com/mean-time-between-failures/
photos: Jesse Partanen
Originally the name ‘mean time between failures’ is taken from the machines’ realm, for example, mechanical or electronic systems. It describes the elapsed time between inherent failures of the systems that can be repaired and depends on the definition of what is considered a failure (Wikipedia).
For our system of the entanglement of two human bodies and a number of non-human bodies MTBF name gestures toward the ongoing presence of fragility and exhaustion. They gently frame our rigor, rage and curiosity as artists and bodies in relation to the political, social, imaginary and corporeal. It is important for us that the system can always be restored. Moreover, we view our duet as an open system that repairs itself by coming in close contact with what impacted its breakage in the first place. Our open system multiplies, drops its organs/parts – the art objects that are left around like spores – and goes through the processes of misalignment and realignment. This informs our artistic work methods and the relationship to each other as artistic collaborators.
read more:
www.hiap.fi/dasha-che-suvi-tuominen-sinking-through-movement/
https://dashche.com/mean-time-between-failures/
photos: Jesse Partanen
