How do you activate a white cube gallery space? In this film, artist Mika Tajima works with two amateur contortionists to create a series of dance-like movements that respond to her sculptural installation of re-purposed vintage office cubicles and ergonomic chairs.

The performance is the culmination of a long and delicate exchange between the artist and her multiple collaborators, with Tajima proposing the idea to her gallery over the phone and months later directing the performers to improvise a series of poses only hours before the event. Beginning with simple positions, the contortionists’ bodies begin to take on striking shapes as music by Tajima’s music collective New Humans asserts a steady rhythm.