
Mella Jaarsma Netherlands, b. 1960
For the exhibition at A+ Works of Art I created a series of works that start from this
notion of distance and measurements and how that contributes to our perception of
our surroundings. The Size of Rice digs into measurements of objects, like a grain of
rice, as well as measurements between objects and the body.
I created four objects related to the concepts above. These objects I will give to four
dancers, with different ethnographic and traditional backgrounds in Indonesia. I will
ask each dancer to make a performance with the object according guidelines that I
will give to them. The performances were recorded and shown with the object.