SOLO ART PROJECT - The Vagus Nerve
Performance Art SOLO Project
The Vagus Nerve Art Project
Categories Art & Entertainment
2018-2023
Official Art Project©All rights reserved
The Vagus Nerve Art Project contains Performance Art video recordings titled Scheherazade’s Story Tiles that had been published under the category Art & Entertainment for different periods of time from 2018 until 2023 in YouTube, Vimeo and Patreon.
The vagus nerve is the longest and the most complex of the 12 cranial nerves, extending from the head to the abdomen, it carries an extensive range of signals from the digestive system and the organs of the brain and vice versa. Vagus means “wandering” in Latin. The vagus nerve detects the energies between the people. They are not visible, but everyone is able to feel and sense the energies of the other. The Vibe!
The explanation of the vagus nerve by Edith Zimmerman in her article at The CUT New York, Science of Us from 9 of May 2019, titled “I Now Suspect the Vagus Nerve Is the Key to Well-being” matches Valeriya’s art performances quite well:
“I liked this idea that we have something like a secret piano key, under our skin, to press internally to calm us down. Or like a musical string to pluck. At this point I was envisioning the vagus nerve as a single inner cord, stretching from the head to the stomach. In reality, the vagus nerve is a squiggly, shaggy, branching nerve connecting most of the major organs between the brain and colon, like a system of roots or cables. It is the longest nerve in the body, and technically it comes as a pair of two vagus nerves, one for the right side of the body and one for the left. It’s called “vagus” because it wanders, like a vagrant, among the organs. The vagus nerve has been described as “largely responsible for the mind-body connection”, for its role as a mediator between thinking and feeling, and I’m tempted to think of it as something like a physical manifestation of the soul. Also: “When people say, ‘trust your gut’, as one Psychology Today writer put it several years ago, “they really meant ‘trust your vagus nerve’.”
Their curiosity about astrology, numerology, myths and the mystic tarot cards leads the artist to use all of these in their artistic performances in combination with phrases from poetry and song lyrics from different musical groups and singers.
On their headphones sometimes the artist play the radio while recording, sometimes certain singers that they like, or sometimes some singers that they don't like, but use it to make their artistic performances more interesting.
The audience doesn't hear the music and the lyrics that the artist hear on their headphones. While recording their artistic performance, the artist only use specific phrases or words from the song playing in their headphones, intertwining the lyrics with the story they are telling at the particular moment.
The Vagus Nerve Art project includes not just performance art videos. There are also monotype original layered gel prints, created in the summer of 2016, when this art project actually started and the ideas build up in the following years.
These Vagus Nerve monotype layered gel prints have not been exhibited anywhere yet, and at the moment it is not possible for the public to watch any video from this art project.
The Vagus Nerve Art Project
Categories Art & Entertainment
2018-2023
Official Art Project©All rights reserved
The Vagus Nerve Art Project contains Performance Art video recordings titled Scheherazade’s Story Tiles that had been published under the category Art & Entertainment for different periods of time from 2018 until 2023 in YouTube, Vimeo and Patreon.
The vagus nerve is the longest and the most complex of the 12 cranial nerves, extending from the head to the abdomen, it carries an extensive range of signals from the digestive system and the organs of the brain and vice versa. Vagus means “wandering” in Latin. The vagus nerve detects the energies between the people. They are not visible, but everyone is able to feel and sense the energies of the other. The Vibe!
The explanation of the vagus nerve by Edith Zimmerman in her article at The CUT New York, Science of Us from 9 of May 2019, titled “I Now Suspect the Vagus Nerve Is the Key to Well-being” matches Valeriya’s art performances quite well:
“I liked this idea that we have something like a secret piano key, under our skin, to press internally to calm us down. Or like a musical string to pluck. At this point I was envisioning the vagus nerve as a single inner cord, stretching from the head to the stomach. In reality, the vagus nerve is a squiggly, shaggy, branching nerve connecting most of the major organs between the brain and colon, like a system of roots or cables. It is the longest nerve in the body, and technically it comes as a pair of two vagus nerves, one for the right side of the body and one for the left. It’s called “vagus” because it wanders, like a vagrant, among the organs. The vagus nerve has been described as “largely responsible for the mind-body connection”, for its role as a mediator between thinking and feeling, and I’m tempted to think of it as something like a physical manifestation of the soul. Also: “When people say, ‘trust your gut’, as one Psychology Today writer put it several years ago, “they really meant ‘trust your vagus nerve’.”
Their curiosity about astrology, numerology, myths and the mystic tarot cards leads the artist to use all of these in their artistic performances in combination with phrases from poetry and song lyrics from different musical groups and singers.
On their headphones sometimes the artist play the radio while recording, sometimes certain singers that they like, or sometimes some singers that they don't like, but use it to make their artistic performances more interesting.
The audience doesn't hear the music and the lyrics that the artist hear on their headphones. While recording their artistic performance, the artist only use specific phrases or words from the song playing in their headphones, intertwining the lyrics with the story they are telling at the particular moment.
The Vagus Nerve Art project includes not just performance art videos. There are also monotype original layered gel prints, created in the summer of 2016, when this art project actually started and the ideas build up in the following years.
These Vagus Nerve monotype layered gel prints have not been exhibited anywhere yet, and at the moment it is not possible for the public to watch any video from this art project.
