Perturbation, video, 2020
Focusing on the body as a source of movement in relation to space, the main issue in my practice is recognising the particular dance forms the body reacts with to a particular space and time, which relates a form of language.
I work with an expanded drawing practice. I recognise different points in space where my body reacts with. Both the words and movements I choreograph observe each other. The shapes I choreograph for a particular space are embodied through dance form, and I play with the relationship between the line which forms shapes for the movement and the body’s form in physical space to make the movement. The directions of movement my body embodies due to the line are a type of test which informs both the line, the limits of my body’s muscles to perform them and how the body reacts to the physical space in terms of the body in the interaction of the outside material and form.
This piece, Perturbation, is a duo video piece based on the spaces in which I have made a series of movement phrases in. I consider my body to be drawing in space the shapes which make up these phrases. The movement phrases and dialogue are a response to the space, coming from me as a human, in the combination of the physical and emotional response; within the timeframe which I made the work, while in isolation. The title reflects a certain feeling of restlessness and comfort at the same time.
Perturbation: Stair Piece, video, 2020. Duration 3 min 25 sec.
Perturbation: Stair Piece was featured in Femmesolation Film Festival, and was selected as a finalist.
Perturbation: Soil Piece, video, 2020. Duration 4 mins 56 sec.
Perturbation: Soil is featured in the online zine Haus a Rest issue 5- Body as a Landscape.
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I Move with the Line, 2020
The video I Move With The Line involves a dialogue between movement and line, representing a choreography of chance developed by a line drawing and inmprvised by the artist.
I Move With The Line
Video on 60” 4k monitor, duration 9 mins (on loop)
In The Making- To Let, Pallas Projects and Studios, February 2020.
I Move With The Line on Vimeo. Duration 5 mins 12 sec.
I Move With The Line
Video on 60” 4k monitor, duration 9 mins (on loop)
In The Making- To Let, Pallas Projects and Studios, February 2020.
I Move With The Line on Vimeo. Duration 5 mins 12 sec.
Installed in exhibition space: Duration 4 mins 23 sec.
Copenhagen Light Festival- Dance Performance
A Temporary Absence, 2019
Made up of three videos and three pieces of audio dialogue, this piece takes my own response, to the
domestic scene,of the emotional element of my brother emigrating. Each video is a response to the
different stages in grief of losing someone, even if on a temporary basis. The stages in the videos are
contentment, shock and anguish. Over the videos, I used a recording of the both of my parents,
telling their stories and thoughts of their oldest son emigrating.
The different elements of going through this certain type of grief, called for three different types of
performative videos. A final live performance ties the the three videos in a form of acceptance that this is
real and happening. When my older brother, Kevin emigrated, there was a sense of shock in the home. A
poignant silence that would be peculiar for such a busy household. My parents in particular were the most
effected. Through the performative movements, and the audio of the dialogue, the performance becomes
personal and ritualistic.
My research is a selection of live performances, that involved materials, coloured powders, and candles. I
worked mostly intuitively off the inspiration of the abnormal sense of absence in the household. I filmed
the final videos in the studio, and recorded the dialogue separately. I asked my parents separate questions,
my father found it the most difficult to speak about the emotional sense of loss. I asked him to tell fond
stories. My mother was easier to have talking about what it was like for her oldest son to emigrate,
though both of them, poignantly still seemed to have put on a facade when they speak about this, as if
afraid to convey their true feeling of loss they experience.
