Throwing

Media:

Audiovisual performance/installation

Description:

Throwing is a durational performance and audiovisual study of the temporality of baseball as Major League Baseball begins to institute the pitch clock to speed up the pace of play. It is a queer love letter to pitching mannerisms and idiosyncrasies that take up time and disrupt an easily commodifiable game flow. The piece features the artist as a training pitcher throwing baseballs across the performance space and gradually finding their own sense of rhythm, gesture, and slowness.

Bio:

Nicki Duval (they/them) is a multidisciplinary artist primarily working in the mediums of performance art, video, and sound. Their work focuses on time, queerness, the body, and questions of form and formlessness. In their time at UCSC’s Digital Arts and New Media program, they have largely focused on athletics (and specifically baseball) as a vehicle for thinking through these concepts. Outside of DANM, they compose and perform experimental electronic music as EEL TANK.