“Pure Resilience” is a video installation composed of a film and large scale metal sculpture inspired by fitness machinery. The viewer is invited to sit in the structure and view the film with headphones. In the video the artist wears a professional speed skating suit, custom printed with notes and affirmations displayed through branding. This technically-designed, aerodynamic piece which promises minimal wind drag while exerting control over external particles. Detail shots show the designs stretching over contracting muscles, long limbs and exhausted tissue. A voice speaks to the viewer in an instructional tone, describing how one can navigate their body and adapt physical behaviours to an unbalanced environment. Polluted psychological air flow particles float haphazardly, yet strategically, striving for mind commodification. The work explores a fight against the continual drive to condition and curate the malleable mind. In neuroplasticity research, we see how the brain is constantly responding to its experiences within its environment. The brain is seen as something which is modifiable, formable and formative at the same time. The body and mind functions in fluidity with its environment; each component constantly interacting, redefining and influencing one another. Through video, sublimated text and narration, endurance practices are discussed as a way to reformulate the mind, body and environment relationship, and thus, exert a presence needed to gain control. Repetition of an act creates a rhythm, but by pushing the threshold of suffering until reserve capacities are depleted, chaos erupt and attention is forced inwards for psychological support of such physical behaviours. In bodybuilding, a form of shock therapy is used to gain muscle growth. A highly calculated process of training each muscle group and pushing them beyond their limits until they break, and are forced to grow back at a larger capacity. Variety in training allows the individual to continually shock the body, forcing it to never gain a rhythm. Traversing the line between control and chaos allows an individual to disrupt the usual process of malleability inflicted. An exertion of energy, this state of being “used up”, develops a strong bodily and physical resilience. A feeling of indistinctiveness; a place where organic thoughts and actions can arise from.