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34 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
Middlesex University
Move
My research investigates issues about the right to public protest and the importance of counter-cultural expression, together with a process that privileges play and spontaneity without compromising either.
MOVE was commissioned for the 7th Göteborg International Biennial of Contemporary Art (GIBCA, 2013): Play! Recapturing the Radical Imagination. Working with cultural activist Johan Heintz, and DJ Kali, MOVE explores the potency of place to connect and curtail collective action.
The soundtrack to the film was created from a techno-clash between several Göteborg-based DJs produced at a specially organised club night, reminiscent of the underground scene during the 1980s and 1990s.
Through the GIBCA curatorial team I invited a number of contemporary dancers to interpret, through improvisational gestures, both the recent histories of these sites and their own relationship to the public discussions these events in Sweden have engendered. The filming took place over three days in the industrial neighbourhood of Haga, along the route of the former illegal club scene, and in two specific locations: the Hvitfeldtska and Schillerska Schools that experienced repressive state tactics in 2001. Site-specificity features strongly in many of my recent artworks and as a process-led project that derives from engaging with other people to pay as much attention to the artwork as is paid to the process.
MOVE has shown as part of Leisure, Discipline & Punishment, a pan-European series of International Biennales:
2013
Contour, Mechelen, Belgium
Göteborg International Biennal of Contemporary Art, Sweden
Ljubljana Biennal of Graphic Arts, Slovenia
2014
FACT, Liverpool Biennial, UK
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