Elastic Acts: Letting Go, Letting Nature Perform

Pic: Do or Die, from the series of work titled Boot-ed , 2025

Elastic Acts: Letting Go, Letting Nature Perform

by Milo V. Poulsen

The performance hasn’t happened yet.
But Amir’s already stepped away.

Not in silence, but in elasticity.
Not in retreat, but in recalibration.

There’s a shift unfolding—not loudly, not with fanfare. But with the quiet confidence of someone who has realized that sometimes, the most radical gesture is to not gesture. Amir Zainorin, whose body has long stood at the center of his performance practice, is now letting go. Not of meaning, or presence—but of control.

In a new work forming for one of his upcoming exhibitions, Amir is preparing a stage. But this time, he won’t be on it. The elements—those old collaborators we tend to overlook—will take his place. Time, weight, temperature, light. The kind of performers that don’t need an audience. The kind that don’t wait for applause.

Nothing will be done to the materials. They will simply be allowed to behave. To react. To unfold. To perform.

And in that quiet refusal to intervene, a new kind of presence emerges. A choreography of vanishing. A dramaturgy of slow collapse. The act becomes the non-act. The artist becomes the witness. And performance becomes a condition—one that doesn’t begin or end, but hovers, like condensation or breath.

This isn't disappearance.
It’s diffusion.
It’s elasticity.

Identity too, Amir seems to say, is not fixed. It stretches, it reforms, it rests. It resists the neat definitions we try to stamp on it. Just as this new work resists the demand to show. To explain. To climax.

The performance hasn’t happened yet.
But already, it’s happening.

About the author
Milo V. Poulsen is a writer of uncertain origin. Her work drifts between poetic reflection and conceptual mischief, often appearing where performance dissolves into presence. She prefers to remain offstage, letting the text do the talking.