Juuli

Juuli's research consistently asks how a very small formal operation can produce meaning without the support of conventional narrative. Stacy Makishi's work becomes important because imperfection, interruption and short-duration actions offer alternatives to polished performance. Rather than treating the incomplete gesture as deficient, Juuli investigates what becomes perceptible when an intention is interrupted before it fully resolves.

Repetition and slowness gradually become central. A repeated action is not required to represent a story; its persistence can alter the spectator's attention and allow small differences to acquire dramaturgical weight. Her recurring concern with maintaining “colour” in a process points to the same problem: how can a score remain alive after it becomes technically repeatable?

For Clarisse, Juuli provides a small-scale formal analogue to questions Clarisse often approaches through larger ritual structures. Clarisse's long-duration or repetitive actions accumulate meaning through matter, exhaustion and changing bodily state; Juuli asks a comparable question through minimal gestures and interrupted scores. The comparison clarifies that repetition itself is not meaningful. What matters is whether repetition continues to transform perception.