This Mortal House Building 3 is a durational performance that unfolds in the historic heart of La Chapelle Salpêtrière throughout OFFSCREEN. Over six days, eight hours each day, the performance enacts the gradual construction of a spiral using 1440 uncooked bricks while blindfolded. The spiral, governed by the Fibonacci sequence, symbolizes the natural order, beauty, and harmony of the world. It represents journeys inward toward one’s core or outward into expanded consciousness. The work builds throughout the week, climaxing in its dramatic destruction on the last day of OFFSCREEN.

While the artist works blindfolded, the performance is filmed with iPhone 17 Pro, exploring the tension between invisibility and a fractured, multiplicitous image. Employing numerous vantage points to achieve wide Kubrickian angles as well as tight close-ups, both of which create absences and tension, the experimental artist film aims to place the viewer in the artist’s skin throughout this extremely physical performance. The sound design intends to isolate key notes and rhythms during the performance, including the artist’s breath, expressions of physical pain, the sliding of feet and hands, the lifting and placing of uncooked bricks, and the powerful chamber of reverberated silence echoing off the walls and dome.

Maria Stamenković Herranz (b. 1976, Bern, Switzerland; lives and works in Paris) is a Serbian-Spanish interdisciplinary artist whose practice merges performance, visual art, and embodied research. She investigates how ephemeral actions leave lasting traces in matter and collective memory, positioning performance as a tool for social transformation and a bridge between history, politics, and spirituality.

Through sculptural objects—such as the bricks in This Mortal House Building 1, 2 & 3—she challenges the boundary between action and object, inviting audience engagement with evolving narratives. Recent exhibitions include the Joseph Beuys Foundation at Schloss Moyland Museum (The Painted Heron, 2025), Librairie du Palais Gallery during the Arles Photo Festival (Arles, 2024), Paris Photo (Paris, 2023), March Art Project Gallery (Istanbul, 2022), Bangkok Art Biennale (Bangkok, 2021), Sakıp Sabancı Museum (Istanbul, 2020), and Benaki Museum (Athens, 2016).

She is currently collaborating with Marina Abramović on a new performance work (2025–2026) that will premiere at Manchester Factory International and travel to the Armory in New York.

Dustin Lynn (b. 1981, Oakland, USA; lives and works in Berlin) is a filmmaker whose 16mm documentaries and experimental films have been presented at the Tribeca and New York Film Festivals, GenArt, FilmStock International, and in galleries including Galerie Karsten Greve. Collaborations with Marina Abramović, Gabriel Orozco, and institutions such as MoMA have shaped a practice attentive to presence, rhythm, and the embodied experience of time. His parallel career in music (Dukes of Chutney, Beats In Space / RVNG Intl.) informs the atmospheric structure of his films, uniting image, sound, and performance, while directing projects for Alexander McQueen, Chanel, LVMH, NOWNESS, Adidas, and Hennessy has extended his cinematic language into broader cultural and commercial contexts.

Mabe Fratti (b. 1992, Guatemala; lives and works in Mexico City) is an experimental cellist and composer. Her recent album Será que ahora podremos entendernos, earning acclaim from Pitchfork, NPR, BBC, The Wire, The Guardian, XLR8R, Bandcamp, and more, finds a space for lyrical invention, elevating her otherworldly creations to new heights. She was the subject of a recent New York Times profile and has performed at concerts and festivals from Unsound at Lincoln Center in New York to the ICA London, Le Guess Who? International Music Festival in Utrecht, and the Biennale Musica in Venice, amongst others.

Lucy Railton (b. 1985, United Kingdom; lives and works in Berlin) is a British cellist and composer working at the forefront of contemporary and electronic music. With acclaimed releases on Modern Love, PAN and ECM, her latest solo album Blue Veil on Ideological Organ. Known for her innovative approach, her work spans dance, film, installation, and performance art in wide-ranging collaborative contexts, including work with Kali Malone, Soundwalk Collective & Patti Smith, the Maryanne Amacher Foundation, Laura Sellies, Akram Khan and Beatrice Dillon. She was recently commissioned by Groupe de Recherches Musicale and Issue Project Room New York, and a resident artist at Somerset House Studios, London, Blank Forms New York and Providenza.

TONO is a US non-profit arts organization (501c3) dedicated to time-based artwork, including performance, dance, music, and moving-image. Through direct commissions with artists and collaborations with institutional partners, TONO presents innovative artworks and experimental collaborations. TONO has organized projects with the Museum of Modern Art, New York; Pérez Art Museum Miami; the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul; the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne; the Serpentine Galleries, London; Wiels, Brussels; and La Biennale di Venezia, amongst others. TONO Festival is an annual event hosted across museums in Mexico City and Puebla, Mexico. Serving as TONO’s laboratory, the event features video installations, performances, parties, music events, talks, and screenings.