Hush Fell
Hush Fell is a collaborative project by Marilyn Loddi (performer and sculptor) and Bill Bilowit (filmmaker). Together we create work expanding the inside and outside experience of our body, its infinitely complex cycles of life, and its physical and mental boundaries with the constructs of our societies.
Our work includes abstract sculptures and reliefs from foodstuffs and organic materials that only remain “fresh” in consistency, color, and form very briefly upon completion. The improvised performance of making and the completed piece is filmed, photographed, and scanned. We combine these visual elements with sounds to create a visceral installation. We are now introducing live performance into our exhibitions—acts of production, presentation, and gift economy experiences.
Our practice developed from a lifelong fascination with the vast functionality of our bodies and mind, the fundamental natural sciences, and the pan-global connections of culture and tradition. We continuously experiment with boundaries by rearranging, blurring, breaking, and reimagining these connections. Our mindsets have been deeply influenced by personal journeys overcoming debilitating physical and mental challenges. We embrace our mortality while celebrating the profound gift of physical existence and the eternal intimate experiences it enables.
We invite viewers into a sensory dialogue of curiosity and wonder about the shared human journey— each of us carrying an inner world of mysteries, each spontaneously exploring unknown territories within ourselves.
Antibody
This series of projects expands the inside and outside experience of our bodies.
The outside is a macro social universe of visual desire and appearance judgement.
The inside are microbiomes we inexorably host; they compose us, influence our thoughts,
and as a whole we represent one of nature’s most stunning symbioses,
the prime example of mutualism.
The Offering Cycle
This work in progress explores the relationship between creation, consumption, and regeneration through an experimental film project. The work centers on a perpetual cycle: chickens consume an edible sculpture, their eggs are used as sustenance by the artist Marilyn, who then creates new sculptures from this nourishment—forming an endless loop of artistic creation and natural consumption.
Video still (2024)
Balance of Power
Repressed traumas and moral injuries are imagined as eruptions and emergences on the body.
Ephemeral food based sculptures are applied and photographed on location.
Balance of Power Ep-2 (2021) 12inx9in digital print (1 of 3)
Forbidden Proposals: Billboards
Ruthless litigation would follow rapid Cease and Desist after production of our proposed public beautification of everyday fast food.
McDonald's (2021), ephemeral sculpture
Taco Bell (2021), ephemeral sculpture
Krispy Kreme (2021), ephemeral sculpture
2nd Brain Session 2
An improvised wet sculpture, composed entirely of edible substances, was created on the surface of a glass plane, filmed from below. A short film (loop) of the 1-hour composition was supplemented by animation of an edible crystalline recreation and a visual effect addendum, and mixed with appropriated experimental music sources. The work is informed by the catabolic process (digestion) which deconstructs and maximizes the benefits of everything we consume, leaving us new opportunities for tomorrow.
2nd Brain Session 1
2nd Brain Session 1 (2020) was an improvisational performance to stimulate, sense, and interpret the dialogue between our body's interdependent Enteric Nervous System (gut) and Central Nervous System (head). The thoughts, emotions, and behavior of every human being are a result of this complex conversation.
Each improvised, ephemeral food-based piece was filmed in the making and edited into a short chronicle (excerpts below), and its silhouette was captured and printed to create an icon representing the memory of a coalescence.